Assert exception raised due to previous test-case failure

Question

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In the following code, if rollBackLogger is nil, the first test case would fail but all other test cases would raise an exception.

Is there a way available to avoid this, other than using an if statement?

I believe that this is a very common situation for unit testing and that there should be some function in assert or some other way around to avoid this.

assert.NotNil(rollbackLogger)
assert.Equal("Action", rollBackLogger[0].Action)
assert.Equal("random path", rollBackLogger[0].FilePath)

Answer 1

You can simply use t.FailNow() if you want the test to fail if the condition isn't valid.

I don't think there's a way to stop the test on an assert failure without using a condition or an external package.

if !assert.NotNil(rollbackLogger) {
    t.FailNow()
}
assert.Equal("Action", rollBackLogger[0].Action)
assert.Equal("random path", rollBackLogger[0].FilePath)

or if you use the testify/assert package,

if !assert.NotNil(rollbackLogger) {
    assert.FailNow(t, "message")
}
assert.Equal("Action", rollBackLogger[0].Action)
assert.Equal("random path", rollBackLogger[0].FilePath)