Tests should be designed to validate behavior without being brittle or sensitive to implementation details. Avoid direct string comparisons for complex data structures or binary data, as these tests can break due to formatting changes or encoding issues that don't reflect actual functional problems.
Tests should be designed to validate behavior without being brittle or sensitive to implementation details. Avoid direct string comparisons for complex data structures or binary data, as these tests can break due to formatting changes or encoding issues that don’t reflect actual functional problems.
Instead:
// Do this (more robust): assert.Equal(t, bsonData, w.Body.Bytes())
2. For structured data like JSON/YAML/XML, unmarshal back to a comparable structure:
```go
// Instead of string comparisons:
assert.Equal(t, "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}", w.Body.String())
// Parse and compare structurally:
var result map[string]interface{}
err := json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &result)
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, expectedData, result)
// Check each component individually: setCookie := w.Header().Get(“Set-Cookie”) assert.Contains(t, setCookie, “user=gin”) assert.Contains(t, setCookie, “Path=/”) assert.Contains(t, setCookie, “Domain=localhost”) ```
These approaches ensure tests remain valid even when non-functional aspects of the implementation change, reducing maintenance burden and avoiding false test failures.
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