The Art of Testing
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Testing aims to improve maintainability and enable bold refactors, not to maximize coverage. The talk argues for practical tools and concrete patterns: creates test server with teardown closure that centralizes lifecycle and cleanup, uses httptest and lightweight is assert package for clear failures, generates mocks via simple codegen with function-field callbacks, prefers interface-level tests, warns against over-mocking and chasing 100% coverage, and stresses fast failures so feedback is immediate.
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