Configure Ginkgo for continuous integration — the recommended CLI flag set and the rationale for each flag (-r -p --randomize-all --randomize-suites --fail-on-pending --fail-on-empty --keep-going --cover --race --trace --json-report --timeout…
Control spec ordering and manage flaky specs — Serial, Ordered containers with BeforeAll/AfterAll/ContinueOnFailure, OncePerOrdered, SpecPriority, plus FlakeAttempts/--flake-attempts, MustPassRepeatedly, --repeat, and --until-it-fails. Use when specs must run…
Run Ginkgo suites in parallel — ginkgo -p / --procs, the separate-process (not goroutine) model, SynchronizedBeforeSuite/SynchronizedAfterSuite vs BeforeSuite, GinkgoParallelProcess() for sharding ports/tmpdirs/databases, building a binary once via gexec,…
Diagnose a failing Ginkgo suite as an agent — always run with --json-report into a predictable temp/gitignored location, read the terminal verdict line, then use jq to extract structured failure details (name, message, file:line, panic value, captured logs).…
One-line reference for every Ginkgo decorator, grouped by what it does, with the node types each can decorate — Serial, Ordered, ContinueOnFailure, OncePerOrdered, Label, Focus, Pending, FlakeAttempts, MustPassRepeatedly, NodeTimeout, SpecTimeout,…
Run a subset of a Ginkgo suite — Pending/PIt/XIt, runtime Skip, programmatic Focus/FIt (and ginkgo unfocus), Label with the --label-filter query language and label sets, suite-level labels, SemVerConstraint/--sem-ver-filter, --focus/--skip and…
The Ginkgo mental model for writing Go tests — the one idea that explains everything (Ginkgo builds a spec tree at construction time, then runs it) and its consequences for how you write specs, plus spec independence and the node taxonomy. Use this first when…
Wire Ginkgo into a Go package — install the ginkgo CLI and Ginkgo+Gomega, ginkgo bootstrap to generate the suite_test.go (TestXxx/RegisterFailHandler(Fail)/RunSpecs), the package xxx_test convention, dot-import alternatives (aliased import, dsl/* subpackages,…
Make Ginkgo specs interruptible and test asynchronous behavior — SpecContext/context.Context cancellable nodes, NodeTimeout/SpecTimeout/GracePeriod, the --timeout flag, Abort and SIGINT behavior, Gomega Eventually/Consistently (the func(g Gomega) form,…