使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 gotests

项目链接

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• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• gotests

项目历史

The repository was created in January 2016 and published early 1.x releases in 2016. The README describes the tool as a generator for table-driven tests and documents command-line filters for exported functions, named tests, recursive package traversal, templates, and writing generated tests back to files.

采用历史

The README highlights integrations with editor and IDE workflows, including Sublime Text, Emacs, Vim, Atom, Visual Studio Code, and GoLand. That adoption pattern made gotests useful as both a terminal command and an editor action for quickly producing test skeletons.

使用方式

Typical usage is to run gotests against files or packages, optionally selecting specific functions, exported APIs, custom templates, or testify-style output. Later releases added full Go generics support and an optional local-LLM mode through Ollama for generating test cases.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

gotests is the sort of package that shows how Go tooling tends to compose: it is not a test framework, but a small generator that feeds ordinary go test workflows and leaves normal Go source behind.

时间线

• 2016: Repository created and v1.0 published.
• 2020: v1.6.0 release published.
• 2025: v1.8.0 release described full Go generics support.
• 2025: v1.9.0 release described local AI-powered test generation through Ollama.

Related projects

• Go's table-driven test idiom is the coding style gotests automates.
• Go editor integrations such as VS Code Go and Vim plugins provide interactive entry points for generated tests.

来源

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gotests
• https://github.com/cweill/gotests
• https://github.com/cweill/gotests#readme
• https://github.com/cweill/gotests/releases