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by Stephen Ball

Mar 16, 2022 go

nice go test output

The go test command is alright and props to go for being like a real modern language with built-in support for testing. But its output is decidedly unfriendly.

$ go test
PASS
ok      pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo  0.100s

(Aside: I’m going through Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go and it’s quite excellent)

We can make it a little nicer with -v

$ go test -v
=== RUN   TestAdd
--- PASS: TestAdd (0.00s)
=== RUN   TestComplete
--- PASS: TestComplete (0.00s)
=== RUN   TestDelete
--- PASS: TestDelete (0.00s)
=== RUN   TestSaveGet
--- PASS: TestSaveGet (0.00s)
PASS
ok      pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo  0.211s

But still not very human friendly.

There’s a gotestfmt tool out there which has pretty great results! Provided you pass it the json output of go test

$ go test -v -json | gotestfmt
📦 pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo
  ✅ TestAdd (0s)
  ✅ TestComplete (0s)
  ✅ TestDelete (0s)
  ✅ TestSaveGet (0s)

But if you have stderr output from your tests as part of the setup/teardown process then gotestfmt will let you down. For some reason it outputs all of those outputs before any of the test results.

$ go test -v -json | gotestfmt
📦 pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo
Building tool...
Running tests...
Cleaning up...
  ✅ TestTodoCLI (240ms)
  ✅ TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments (220ms)
  ✅ TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN (10ms)
  ✅ TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask (10ms)
  ✅ TestTodoCLI/ListTasks (0s)

vs

$ go test -v
Building tool...
Running tests...
=== RUN   TestTodoCLI
=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments
=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN
=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/ListTasks
=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask
--- PASS: TestTodoCLI (0.08s)
    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments (0.07s)
    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN (0.00s)
    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/ListTasks (0.00s)
    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask (0.00s)
PASS
Cleaning up...
ok      pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo 0.314s

A minor quibble absolutely; but one that annoyed me enough to want to do something about it.

Since go test very nicely provides json output what about using it directly?

$ go test -v -json
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.170841-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Output":"Building tool...\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.334313-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Output":"Running tests...\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.334414-04:00","Action":"run","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.334422-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI","Output":"=== RUN   TestTodoCLI\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.334473-04:00","Action":"run","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.33448-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments","Output":"=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.495296-04:00","Action":"run","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.495322-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN","Output":"=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.499036-04:00","Action":"run","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/ListTasks"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.499055-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/ListTasks","Output":"=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/ListTasks\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.50366-04:00","Action":"run","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.503676-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask","Output":"=== RUN   TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513055-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI","Output":"--- PASS: TestTodoCLI (0.18s)\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513088-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments","Output":"    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments (0.16s)\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513097-04:00","Action":"pass","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments","Elapsed":0.16}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513105-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN","Output":"    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN (0.00s)\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513109-04:00","Action":"pass","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN","Elapsed":0}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513113-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/ListTasks","Output":"    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/ListTasks (0.00s)\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.51313-04:00","Action":"pass","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/ListTasks","Elapsed":0}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513134-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask","Output":"    --- PASS: TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask (0.01s)\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513139-04:00","Action":"pass","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask","Elapsed":0.01}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513142-04:00","Action":"pass","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Test":"TestTodoCLI","Elapsed":0.18}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513146-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Output":"PASS\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.51315-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Output":"Cleaning up...\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513938-04:00","Action":"output","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Output":"ok  \tpragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo\t0.696s\n"}
{"Time":"2022-03-16T13:50:18.513983-04:00","Action":"pass","Package":"pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo","Elapsed":0.696}

Definitely usable! And the outputs are ordered correctly so it’s even weirder that gotestfmt groups them.

A gotestfmt replacement using jq

jq-go-tests is a gotestfmt replacement using jq and sed to get something human friendly but still ordered correctly. It’s not as fancy as gotestfmt pulling out the package and formatting but it’s certainly good enough for me.

$ go test -v -json | jq-go-tests
Building tool...
Running tests...
✅ TestTodoCLI (0.24s)
    ✅ TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromArguments (0.22s)
    ✅ TestTodoCLI/AddNewTaskFromSTDIN (0.00s)
    ✅ TestTodoCLI/ListTasks (0.00s)
    ✅ TestTodoCLI/CompleteTask (0.01s)
PASS
Cleaning up...
ok      pragprog.com/rggo/interacting/todo/cmd/todo 0.822s

If you don’t want to click through to the code jq-go-tests is simply

#!/usr/bin/env bash

jq -r '.Output // ""' | rg -v "=== RUN" | sed -e '/^$/d' -e "s/--- PASS/✅/" -e "s/--- FAIL/❌/"

I could spend some time making jq do more of the lifting and formatting but this is definitely already good enough that I’m already using it as my default go test output.

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