We are working on a project that requires some test helpers and mocks that,
ideally, should:
- Helpers should be accessible by all testing code, unit tests, integration
or e2e.
- Note unit tests live along side normal code in their *_test.go
files.
- The rest of tests will be on a separated test/ folder using a built
tag to avoid to be compiled in with regular code.
- Helpers should not be part of the default exported module code.
- Helpers do not need to be accessible by the regular code, just the test
code.
- Helpers might need tests themselves.
How can we achieve that in the simplest or cleanest way? We do not want to
create yet another project for just that, as it is only to be used within
this project.
I was thinking about a build tag for such code and just put it on a regular
folder, such as testsupport/. But that would break unit tests that need
that unless you setup the build tag, which feels weird.
Another option is to place the test support and the test that use them
under the same build tag and folder as test/. And run them separately with
the build tag. That creates a special category of unit tests, when they are
not integration or e2e but need supporting code from those test/support/
packages.
Maybe use a module at testsupport/ separate from the rest of the code and
use it as a library from test code?
Any better options?
Or maybe there is a good known solution for this I should know about.
Jose
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