NAME

       go - tool for managing Go source code

DESCRIPTION

       The  'go  test'  command  expects  to  find  test, benchmark, and example functions in the
       "*_test.go" files corresponding to the package under test.

       A test function is one named TestXxx (where Xxx does not start with a lower  case  letter)
       and should have the signature,

             func TestXxx(t *testing.T) { ... }

       A benchmark function is one named BenchmarkXxx and should have the signature,

             func BenchmarkXxx(b *testing.B) { ... }

       An  example  function  is  similar  to a test function but, instead of using *testing.T to
       report success or failure, prints output  to  os.Stdout.   If  the  last  comment  in  the
       function  starts  with  "Output:"  then the output is compared exactly against the comment
       (see examples below). If the last comment begins with "Unordered output:" then the  output
       is  compared to the comment, however the order of the lines is ignored. An example with no
       such comment is compiled but not executed. An example with  no  text  after  "Output:"  is
       compiled, executed, and expected to produce no output.

       Godoc displays the body of ExampleXxx to demonstrate the use of the function, constant, or
       variable Xxx. An example of a method M with receiver type T or  *T  is  named  ExampleT_M.
       There  may be multiple examples for a given function, constant, or variable, distinguished
       by a trailing _xxx, where xxx is a suffix not beginning with an upper case letter.

       Here is an example of an example:

             func ExamplePrintln() {
                 Println("The output of\nthis example.")
                 // Output: The output of
                 // this example.
             }

       Here is another example where the ordering of the output is ignored:

             func ExamplePerm() {
                 for _, value := range Perm(4) {
                     fmt.Println(value)
                 }

                 // Unordered output: 4
                 // 2
                 // 1
                 // 3
                 // 0
             }

       The entire test file is presented as  the  example  when  it  contains  a  single  example
       function,  at  least  one  other function, type, variable, or constant declaration, and no
       test or benchmark functions.

       See the documentation of the testing package for more information.

AUTHOR

       This manual  page  was  written  by  Michael  Stapelberg  <stapelberg@debian.org>  and  is
       maintained  by  the Debian Go Compiler Team <team+go-compiler@tracker.debian.org> based on
       the output of 'go help testfunc' for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

                                            2021-10-15                             GO-TESTFUNC(7)