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Samantha Coyle
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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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Unit tests

One of the fundamental aspects of testing your application starts with unit tests. Unit tests focus on individual components, verifying that each function or method works as intended. In Go, unit tests are written using the built-in testing package, making it easy to define test functions and assertions.

You will typically define positive and negative unit tests. For example, if you have a function to concatenate several strings together, then you would have some positive test cases, such as "hi " + "sam" = "hi sam", and "bye," + " sam" = "bye, sam". You would also add a few negative test cases that verify that an error occurred for input, such as "hi" + "there" expecting the result of "hi sam". This is not equivalent, nor what we would expect as output, so our negative test case would expect an error to arise.

You can also consider edge cases, such as concatenating strings that...

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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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