Advanced Testing Techniques

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Shows concrete patterns: three levels of dependency injection for SQL (inject DSN, sql.DB, or a custom store interface), a practical way to override time.Now via package variable for deterministic tests, and why exported channels make tests hard so prefer blocking methods that are cancelable. Recommends not exporting wide library interfaces, instead defining small consumer/producer interfaces (used to replace Sarama/Kafka in tests). Demonstrates parameterized suites swapping Redis and memcache backends, and HTTP tests using httptest.ResponseRecorder and docker-entrypoint-initdb.d for Postgres-backed workflows.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:42Why test
3. 2:33Agenda
4. 2:50Disclaimer
5. 3:13Outline
6. 3:33Dependency Injection
7. 4:01Dependency Injection Examples
8. 6:33Time Override
9. 8:01Channels
10. 9:39Queue Lib
11. 10:03Error Handling
12. 10:51Synchronous Testing
13. 11:50Interfaces
14. 12:59Soma
15. 16:32Benefits
16. 17:35Parametrize Test Suites
17. 18:23Example
18. 20:56Why
19. 21:34HTTP Server Test
20. 22:17HTTP Test Package
21. 24:03TableDriven Testing
22. 25:03Session Testing
23. 25:53Database Driven Testing
24. 26:50Table Driven Testing
25. 27:30Wrapping Up

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