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Samantha Coyle
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Samantha Coyle

Samantha Coyle, a Software Engineer at Diagrid, specializes in Go for cloud-native developer tooling, abstracting application development challenges. Committed to Open Source, she contributes to projects like Dapr and Testcontainers. She boasts a rich history in retail computer vision solutions and successfully stabilized industrial edge use cases with testing and diverse deployments for biopharma data pipelines. Her expertise extends to being CKAD certified and reviewing Go textbooks. She is passionate about empowering early-career, diverse professionals. Samantha is in a family of gophers, and enjoys GopherCon with her brother and identical twin sister. She's a seasoned speaker, having presented at various conferences, including GopherCon.
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Code coverage

Understanding the extent of code coverage ensures that your tests adequately exercise your code base. Go provides a built-in tool called cover that generates test coverage reports based on the test cases you have implemented and that it can identify. This is something you can easily add for unit tests and is a new feature that was added in Go 1.20 for integration test code coverage.

Industry standards for application development sit at an 80% code coverage average for projects to strive for. You will typically see the coverage tool used in CI tools that run pull requests against main/master branches to check that there are no large drops in code coverage that have been tested.

You can add the cover flag to calculate test coverage on your test functions. There is also a flag that you can include to specify an output file to generate from the code coverage tool running and gathering its results. This is a useful report to include when your project requires artifacts...

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Samantha Coyle, a Software Engineer at Diagrid, specializes in Go for cloud-native developer tooling, abstracting application development challenges. Committed to Open Source, she contributes to projects like Dapr and Testcontainers. She boasts a rich history in retail computer vision solutions and successfully stabilized industrial edge use cases with testing and diverse deployments for biopharma data pipelines. Her expertise extends to being CKAD certified and reviewing Go textbooks. She is passionate about empowering early-career, diverse professionals. Samantha is in a family of gophers, and enjoys GopherCon with her brother and identical twin sister. She's a seasoned speaker, having presented at various conferences, including GopherCon.
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