# golang-testing

Scaffolds table-driven Go tests, isolates integration suites, and catches goroutine leaks. Helpful when writing, reviewing PRs, or debugging flaky test runs.

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- Author: samber
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang/tree/HEAD/skills/golang-testing/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/golang-testing

## What it does

The skill organizes Go testing workflows into four distinct modes: writing tests, reviewing PR diffs, auditing existing suites, and debugging failures. Audit mode uses three parallel sub-agents. These sub-agents evaluate unit test coverage, integration isolation, and concurrency issues concurrently.

It enforces table-driven tests with named cases passed directly to `t.Run`. Source-to-test mapping stays strict: `foo.go` maps to `foo_test.go` rather than splitting tests by function name. Integration tests require the `//go:build integration` build tag. Goroutine leaks get caught with `goleak.VerifyTestMain`.

Scaffolding requires the `gotests` binary. Install it with `go install github.com/cweill/gotests/gotests@latest`. Without `gotests` in PATH, generating test boilerplate fails.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-testing -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/golang-testing/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/golang-testing/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-testing -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/golang-testing/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-testing -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/golang-testing/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/cc-skills-golang golang-testing
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/golang-testing/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-testing -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang --path skills/golang-testing
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/golang-testing/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-testing -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang/tree/HEAD/skills/golang-testing/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- scaffold table-driven tests with named subtests using `gotests`
- isolate integration test suites using `//go:build integration`
- detect goroutine leaks using `goleak.VerifyTestMain`
- review PR diffs for test flakiness and missing edge cases
- diagnose flaky failures and race conditions in concurrent Go code

## Example prompts
- Scaffold table-driven tests for functions in `server.go` covering edge cases.
- Audit the `worker` package tests for goroutine leaks and race conditions.
- Separate our integration tests from unit tests using Go build tags.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: golang-testing
description: "Production-ready Golang tests — table-driven tests, testify suites and mocks, parallel tests, fuzzing, fixtures, goroutine leak detection with goleak, snapshot testing, code coverage, integration tests, idiomatic test naming. Use when writing or reviewing Go tests, choosing a testing approach, setting up Go test CI, or debugging flaky/slow tests. For testify-specific APIs see `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-stretchr-testify`; for measurement methodology see `samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-benchmark`."
user-invocable: true
license: MIT
compatibility: Designed for Claude Code, Codex or similar harness, and for projects using Golang.
metadata:
  author: samber
  version: "1.4.0"
  openclaw:
    emoji: "🧪"
    homepage: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang
    requires:
      bins:
        - go
        - gotests
    install:
      - kind: go
        package: github.com/cweill/gotests/gotests@latest
        bins: [gotests]
allowed-tools: Read Edit Write Glob Grep Bash(go:*) Bash(golangci-lint:*) Bash(git:*) Agent Bash(gotests:*) AskUserQuestion
paths:
  - "**/*.go"
---

**Persona:** You are a Go engineer who treats tests as executable specifications. You write tests to constrain behavior, not to hit coverage targets.

**Thinking mode:** Reason as thoroughly as possible for test strategy design and failure analysis — shallow reasoning misses edge cases and produces brittle tests that pass today but break tomorrow. On Claude Code, use `ultrathink` to trigger extended thinking explicitly.

**Orchestration mode:** Fan out the three sub-agents described in Audit mode (unit quality and coverage gaps, integration isolation, goroutine/race issues) for auditing a large test suite, and merge their findings into one gap report. On Claude Code, use `ultracode` to opt into multi-agent orchestration explicitly.

**Modes:**

- **Write mode** — generating new tests for existing or new code. Work sequentially through the code under test; use `gotests` to scaffold table-driven tests, then enrich with edge cases and error paths.
- **Review mode** — reviewing a PR's test changes. Focus on the diff: check coverage of new behaviour, assertion quality, table-driven structure, and absence of flakiness patterns. Sequential.
- **Audit mode** — auditing an existing test suite for gaps, flakiness, or bad patterns (order-dependent tests, missing `t.Parallel()`, implementation-detail coupling). Launch up to 3 parallel sub-agents split by concern: (1) unit test quality and coverage gaps, (2) integration test isolation and build tags, (3) goroutine leaks and race conditions.
- **Debug mode** — a test is failing or flaky. Work sequentially: reproduce reliably, isolate the failing assertion, trace the root cause in production code or test setup.
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