The future of Testify

07/23/20 • 60 min

The panel discuss testing frameworks in Go. After a brief overview of the concepts involved, we discuss how testing frameworks can make our lives easier, and why some people still choose to avoid them. Mat Ryer and Mark Bates chat with Boyan Soubachov about the future of the Testify project.

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Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X

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Featuring:

Boyan Soubachov – GitHub, LinkedIn
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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Transcript

Transcript for Go Time #139 Mat Ryer:

Hello, and welcome to Go Time. I'm Mat Ryer, and today we're talking about testing frameworks. Some subjects which aren't controversial in other languages are sometimes controversial in Go, and this is one of those... And we're gonna find out why that might be. Today I'm joined -- it's only Mark Bates; hello, Mr. Bates.

Mark Bates:

Hello, Mr. Ryer. How are you doing today?

Mat Ryer:

Good, how are you?<