June Personal Web - Implement Unit Test for CLI Apps using Golang and Cobra

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June Personal Web - Implement Unit Test for CLI Apps using Golang and Cobra

Implementing unit test for command-line interface (CLI) Apps using Golang and Cobra

https://clavinjune.dev/en/blogs/implement-unit-test-for-cli-apps-using-golang-and-cobra/

[skport]

Hi, Your article is very helpful to me.

I am having difficulty understanding the use of the -t (toggle) option, is -t used to turn on/off error sending for test case execution?

[clavinjune]

Hi @skport, thank you for reading the article!

Yes it is just used for making the test have more cases.

In the example, you have a flag called toogle that sending ok as a string if it's turned on, otherwise it'll send not ok as an error.

So there are will be 3 test cases:

• case where toggle is not turned on
• case where toggle is turned on using -t
• case where toggle is turned on using --toggle

[skport]

Thank you! Using this article for reference, I was able to implement the test cases in my Cobra code. :)