Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.
All tagged test names
Write packages, not programs: reusable components in Go
Go has a great standard library. What if we think about our work not merely as building one-off programs, but instead contributing packages to the universal Go library?
Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples
Did you know that Go lets us provide executable code examples as part of our documentation? It’s pretty neat. Let’s take a tour of this useful feature and see how it works.