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		mdwrigh2 on July 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I like about programming in Go > A more batteries-included library could include some assertion methods to test for value equality/inequality and provide some pre-canned error messages. For value equality, just use reflect.DeepEqual[1]. The wiki also has a page on table driven tests, which is worth a read[2]. [1]: http://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#DeepEqual [2]: http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/TableDrivenTests

kisielk on July 5, 2012 [–]

Just the other day I stumbled upon that wiki page, it looks like a pretty reasonable technique and I've started adopting it.

Thanks for the pointer to the reflect package, I shall check it out.

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