I’m 4 weeks into a project using the Go language. It’s been an interesting change of pace from my usual Java/Groovy work. There’s a lot to like about Go, but there are some things I miss from Java/Groovy, so the jury is still out for me. (Go is a damn sight better than PHP, that’s for sure.)

Some of us on the project started out using the goCheck extension for unit testing (https://labix.org/gocheck). Others went down the testify path (https://github.com/stretchr/testify). For reasons I won’t go into here, we all just decided to standardize on testify.

To make converting easier, I wrote a SED script that converts “gocheck” style unit tests to “testify” style. At the moment, you can find it in this branch under my fork of testify: https://github.com/polyglot-jones/testify/tree/sed_script/utils

I placed the script in a new “utils” folder that has a README.md with usage instructions.

After my associates finish vetting it, I’ll issue a pull request to see if the testify custodians want to accept responsibility for it.