How do I set up a Ginkgo test suite?

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I have inherited a Go project that consists of a lot of common files, a library of sorts, two executables, and theoretically a test suite. The test suite is being written after the fact. But I dislike the only way I've found of setting up is rather unpalatable

I'm using Ginkgo, and this is my starting directory structure

component1/component1.go
component2/component2.go
cmd1/cmd1.go
cmd2/cmd2.go
project_suite_test.go
component1_test.go

Each cmd?.go file will be compiled into a separate executable.

What I would like is a multi-file test suite, usually one file per component. Where do I put the files so that go test will find and run all of them, without leaving them here in the root of the project?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 24 '14 at 03:20

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ginkgo init and ginkgo bootstrap will set up your tests. ginkgo -r will run all your tests recursively.

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Ishan Kumar · Answer 2 · 2021-05-14T12:29:57.513

Reason: Ginkgo command will only work if you have actually bootstrap your project via ginkgo.

Options: To use that you have to go to your test dir in terminal and run

ginkgo init : To Initialise project:

ginkgo bootstrap : This will generate new file with test suite config

ginkgo or ginkgo test : this will now be able to run tests based on your new generated file because that's what it is trying to search.

Alternatively:

If you like to keep your tests in a sub-folder, say test, then running

go test ./...

will attempt to run tests in every folder, even those that do not contain any test, thus having a ? in the subsequent report for non-test folders.

Running

go test ./.../test

instead will target only your test folders, thus having a clean report focused on your tests folders only.

you can alternatively use 'go run $(ls *.go)' to run all the files in a given folder. Notice you have regular expression within () braces.

In-case you want to run test in different path update path as per your desired dir in the regular expression

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '14 at 23:32

You can use go test ./... in the root and it will go into child folders and execute the tests:

component1/component1.go
component1/component1_test.go
component2/component2.go
component2/component2_test.go
cmd1/cmd1.go
cmd1/cmd1_test.go
cmd2/cmd2.go
cmd2/cmd2_test.go

How do I set up a Ginkgo test suite?

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