Next level Go testing

Go makes it very easy to write tests. In fact, the test tool is built in the standard toolchain, and you can just run go test to run your tests, without installing extra dependencies or anything else. The testing package is part of the standard library, and it’s use, I’m happy to observe, is pretty wide spread.

As you’re writing your service implementations in Go, hopefully your test coverage is growing with time. With the larger scope of testing, tests run longer as well. Y...