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Achilleas Anagnostopoulos
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Achilleas Anagnostopoulos has been writing code in a multitude of programming languages since the mid 90s. His main interest lies in building scalable, microservice-based distributed systems where components are interconnected via gRPC or message queues. Achilleas has over 4 years of experience building production-grade systems using Go and occasionally enjoys pushing the language to its limits through his experimental gopher-os project: a 64-bit kernel written entirely in Go. He is currently a member of the Juju team at Canonical, contributing to one of the largest open source Go code bases in existence.
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Chapter 4

  1. A stub satisfies a particular interface and returns canned answers for every invocation to the methods it implements. Mocks allow us to specify the following in a declarative way:
    • The order and parameters of the expected set of method invocations
    • The set of values to be returned for each combination of inputs
  1. A fake object provides a fully working implementation whose behavior matches the objects that they are meant to substitute. For example, instead of having our tests communicate with a real key-value (KV) store, we might inject a fake object that provides a compatible, in-memory implementation of the KV store's API.
  2. A table-driven test consists of three main components:
    • A type that encapsulates the parameters for running the test and its expected outcome. In Go programs, this is typically facilitated using an anonymous struct.
    • A slice of test cases to...
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Achilleas Anagnostopoulos has been writing code in a multitude of programming languages since the mid 90s. His main interest lies in building scalable, microservice-based distributed systems where components are interconnected via gRPC or message queues. Achilleas has over 4 years of experience building production-grade systems using Go and occasionally enjoys pushing the language to its limits through his experimental gopher-os project: a 64-bit kernel written entirely in Go. He is currently a member of the Juju team at Canonical, contributing to one of the largest open source Go code bases in existence.
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