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Ginkgo uses Go's
testing
package and can live alongside your existingtesting
tests. It's easy to bootstrap and start writing your first tests -
Structure your BDD-style tests expressively:
- Nestable
Describe
andContext
container blocks BeforeEach
andAfterEach
blocks for setup and teardownIt
blocks that hold your assertionsJustBeforeEach
blocks that separate creation from configuration (also known as the subject action pattern).
- Nestable
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A comprehensive test runner that lets you:
- Mark specs as pending
- Focus individual specs, and groups of specs, either programmatically or on the command line
- Run your tests in random order, and then reuse random seeds to replicate the same order.
- Break up your test suite into parallel processes for straightforward test parallelization
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Built-in support for testing asynchronicity
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Built-in support for benchmarking your code. Control the number of benchmark samples as you gather runtimes and other, arbitrary, bits of numerical information about your code.
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ginkgo
: a command line interface with plenty of handy command line arguments for running your tests and generating test files.The
ginkgo
CLI is convenient, but purely optional -- Ginkgo works just fine withgo test
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A modular architecture that lets you easily:
- Write custom reporters
- Adapt an existing matcher library (or write your own!) to work with Ginkgo
Gomega: Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library
Learn more about Gomega here
Ginkgo is MIT-Licensed