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Go interfaces make test stubbing easy

What's this blog post about?

In a piece of software designed for image compression, John Graham-Cumming discovered an effective use of interfaces in Go programming language. The Worker package runs jobs in goroutines and expects them to have a "Do" method. By defining a Job interface with the required methods, he was able to create a DummyJob that could be used for testing without needing to configure complex job types. This approach greatly simplified the unit test suite and demonstrated the power of interfaces in Go programming.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Aug. 27, 2014

Author(s)
John Graham-Cumming

Word count
666

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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