Do I need prior Go experience for this course?

No. Day 1 is dedicated to Go language basics — syntax, data structures, I/O, and concurrency. You'll build a solid foundation before diving into TDD and testing techniques on Days 2 and 3.

What testing frameworks are covered?

The course covers Go's standard testing package, testify, gocheck, gopwt, gomock for mocking, ginkgo for BDD, faker for test data generation, and go-mutetesting for mutation testing.

Is this course only for people building DevOps tools?

No. While Go is popular in the DevOps ecosystem, the TDD and testing techniques taught are applicable to any Go project — microservices, CLI tools, APIs, or libraries.

Is the course delivered live or is it pre-recorded?

The course is delivered live and online. You can interact with the instructor in real-time, ask questions via chat or audio, and participate in hands-on exercises. Video recordings are provided after the course for review.

Will I receive a certificate after completing the course?

Yes, all participants receive a shareable online certificate of attendance. You can also take an optional 1-hour exam, with your score printed on the certificate.

Advanced testing with Go libraries and techniques to implement.

About the Testing with Go Course

Go is the language used for creating many of the popular DevOps tools and libraries. It's being used for writing high-performing micro-services. It is simple and allows you getting fast binaries for all the major platofrms from the same source code. This 3-day workshop will start with the basics of Go language and then dive into TDD and various testing libraries and techniques to implement effective Go applications.

What You'll Learn in This workhop

Write idiomatic Go code with structs, slices, channels, and goroutines
Apply TDD practices with test-first development and clean code principles
Use mocking, BDD, and acceptance testing frameworks effectively
Implement mutation testing and generate test data for robust test suites

Testing with Go Outline

1. Day 1: Go language basics

• Preparing working environment: tools, IDE, references
• Introduction to Go syntax: types, vars, consts, functions, loops, conditionals
• Organizing Go code base
• Overview of Go standard library
• Working with data structures: structs, arrays, slices, maps
• Working with I/O primitives: files, channels
• Working with functional primitives and parallel execution: functions, closures, threads, goroutines
• Introduction to TDD

2. Day 2: Deep dive into unit testing

• Introduction to TDD: test driven development actually works (Test-first approach, TDD schools: London vs. Detroit)
• Overview of Go testing libraries: testing, testify, gocheck, gopwt
• Organizing test code base (writing readable tests, making error message readable, creating test domain specific languages)
• Using mocks & stubs (with gomock)

3. Day 3: Advanced testing techniques

• Unit tests vs integration tests
• Generating test data (with faker)
• Behavior driven development (BDD) with ginkgo
• ATDD (acceptance test driven development)
• Mutation testing with go-mutetesting

Who Should Attend

developers
software architects
technical project managers
system administrators

What's Included

Unique content - real-life use cases, modern infrastructure, CI/CD/GitOps principles shown in practice.

Certificate of attendance - you will get a shareable online certificate.

Exam after the course - you may pass an optional 1-hour exam and get your score printed on the certificate.

Workshop happens online - join from the convenience of your office or home.

Video recordings will be available after the course - you can revisit some topics later.

Live and interactive - you can ask questions in the chat or over audio and get live clarifications.

Q&A session in the end of each day - you will to get answers to more complex questions in a 1-hour long Q&A session.

Quizzes and polls during the course - learning should be fun!

Practical exercises with solutions - lots of simple and not-so-simple tasks to practice with during the course; Solutions will be provided afterwards.

Additional home work - for those who want to practice more after the course; Homework will be reviewed and supplemented by constructive feedback.

Lifetime e-mail support - you can get answers on anything related to the course content as well as advice based on your company specific situation.