Testing with Go

Online

workhop

3 days

certificate

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.

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What's Inside

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

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)

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's This For

developers, software architects, technical project managers, system administrators.

What You Get

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.

About the trainer

Andrey works as a free-lance DevOps consultant offering his expertise in implementing DevOps initiatives, selecting automation tooling, switching to infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure and constructing software delivery pipelines.

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Pricing

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8500€per teamof up to 20 attendees

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Price includes all materials and cloud infrastructure usage.

If training workshop happens on client premises then trainer's traveling expenses will be added to the final price.

VAT charges may apply.

All training courses are a subject to the cancellation policy.

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