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Install gotests with Homebrew, Nix
Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code. Version 1.9.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#gotests.
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nix profile install nixpkgs#gotestsnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/go/gotests/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code
Project links
Commands and aliases
- gotests
history
Project history and usage
gotests is a Go test-boilerplate generator. It analyzes functions and methods and emits table-driven test scaffolding, fitting the Go community's preference for generated but editable test code.
Project history
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.
Adoption history
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.
How it is used
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.
Why package nerds care
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.
Timeline
- 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.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
gotests | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.9.0
manager updated2026-07-25
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:gotests |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.9.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/cweill/gotests |
| Repository | https://github.com/cweill/gotests |
| Last updated | 2026-07-25T20:55:27-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
gotests
nix profile install nixpkgs#gotests- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Gotests
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation