Testify/v2

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The v2 our tests wanted

A set of go packages that provide tools for testifying (verifying) that your code behaves as you intended.

This is the go-openapi fork of the great testify package.

Note

This is the home of github.com/go-openapi/testify/v2, an active, opinionated fork of github.com/stretchr/testify.

Main features:

• zero external dependencies
• opt-in dependencies for extra features (e.g. asserting YAML, colorized output)
• assertions using generic types (see a basic example). Read the fully story with generics
• searchable documentation

Announcements

• 2025-12-19 : new community chat on discord
  • a new discord community channel is available to be notified of changes and support users
  • our venerable Slack channel remains open, and will be eventually discontinued on 2026-03-31

You may join the discord community by clicking the invite link on the discord badge (also above).

Or join our Slack channel:

Status

Design and exploration phase. Feedback, contributions and proposals are welcome.

Recent news

✅ Fully refactored how assertions are generated and documented.

✅ Fixed hangs & panics when using spew. Fuzzed spew.

✅ Fixed go routine leaks with EventuallyWithT and co.

✅ Added Kind & NotKind

✅ Fix deterministic order of keys in diff

✅ Fixed edge cases with InDelta, InEpsilon

✅ Fixed edge cases with EqualValues

✅ Fixed wrong logic with IsNonIncreasing, InNonDecreasing

✅ Added opt-in support for colorized output

✅ Introduced generics: 38 new type-safe assertions with generic types (doc: added usage guide, examples and benchmark)

See also our ROADMAP.

Getting started

Import this library in your project like so.

go get github.com/go-openapi/testify/v2

... and start writing tests. Look at our examples.

Basic usage

testify simplifies your test assertions like so.

    import (
        "testing"
    )
    ...
    
    const expected = "expected result"

	result := printImports(input)
	if result != expected {
		t.Errorf(
            "Expected: %s. Got: %s", expected, result, 
        )

        return
	}

Becomes:

    import (
        "testing"
        "github.com/go-openapi/testify/v2/require"
    )
    ...

    const expected = "expected result"

	require.Equalf(t,
        expected, printImports(input), "Expected: %s. Got: %s",
        expected, result, 
    )

Usage at go-openapi and go-swagger

This fork now fully replaces the original project for all go-openapi projects, thus reducing their dependencies footprint.

Go-swagger will be adapted over Q1 2026.

Features will probably be added to support our main use cases there.

Change log

See https://github.com/go-openapi/testify/releases

Licensing

SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2025 go-swagger maintainers

This library ships under the SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0.

See the license NOTICE, which recalls the licensing terms of all the pieces of software distributed with this fork, including internalized libraries.

Other documentation

• Getting started

• Usage

• Motivations

• Roadmap

• Internal architecture

• All-time contributors

• Contributing guidelines

• Maintainers documentation

• Coding style

• Security policy

Cutting a new release

Maintainers can cut a new release by either:

• running this workflow (recommended)
• or :
  1. preparing go.mod files with the next tag, merge
  2. pushing a semver tag
  • signed tags are preferred
  • The tag message is prepended to release notes