onsi/ginkgo
A Modern Testing Framework for Go
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Where it stands
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4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 23 days ago, with 210 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 20% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a modern, expressive testing framework for Go with a behavior-driven development style DSL.
- Enables clear, organized, and parallelizable test specs with rich setup, teardown, and filtering capabilities.
- Use for writing unit tests with nested contexts and descriptive behavior in Go projects.
- Use for building complex integration test suites that require parallel execution and timeout management.
- Use for implementing test-driven development workflows with rapid feedback using the built-in CLI watch mode.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Ginkgo is a mature testing framework for Go designed to help you write expressive specs. Ginkgo builds on top of Go's
testingfoundation and is complemented by the Gomega matcher library. Together, Ginkgo and Gomega let you express the intent behind your specs clearly:Jump to the docs to learn more. It's easy to bootstrap and start writing your first specs.
If you have a question, comment, bug report, feature request, etc. please open a GitHub issue, or visit the Ginkgo Slack channel.
Whether writing basic unit specs, complex integration specs, or even performance specs - Ginkgo gives you an expressive Domain-Specific Language (DSL) that will be familiar to users coming from frameworks such as Quick, RSpec, Jasmine, and Busted. This style of testing is sometimes referred to as "Behavior-Driven Development" (BDD) though Ginkgo's utility extends beyond acceptance-level testing.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
709+4
Open issues
128+2
Compared with peers in Testing
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 101.1K | +6.3K | 75 | 6 days ago |
| nrwl/nx | 29.4K | — | 65 | 3 days ago |
| stretchr/testify | 26.2K | — | 56 | 78 days ago |
| gildas-lormeau/SingleFile | 22.9K | — | 35 | today |
| appium/appium | 22.2K | — | 60 | 1 day ago |
| onsi/ginkgo | 9.1K | — | 59 | 23 days ago |
| Category median | 26.2K | — | 60 | — |
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