Mocking

In this episode Omar and myself start working on the Slack integration for PostCast. We start off by reviewing what we have learned about the Slack API so far. Then we come up with a plan of attack and start implementing the plan but don’t get very far.

We struggle to remember how mocking works in Go and then run out of time as I needed to host the Weekly Dev Chat. I’m likely overthinking the mocking and am too used to other languages/technologiges where mocking is easier and more common.

In this episode Omar and myself figure out how to add tests in Go. We try the built-in Go testing framework but then settle on using Testify. Testify allows writing assertions like other testing frameworks we are used to. We also experiment with different ways to do mocking Go and try to figure out what the Go error object is.

*PostCast is just a place holder name and might change. The goofy PostCast placeholder image was generated by ChatGPT and will likely change.