How do I mock dependencies in benchmarks for Go?

When benchmarking in Go, it's important to ensure that dependencies are mocked to isolate the function or method being tested. This improves the accuracy of your benchmarks by eliminating the influence of external factors. Here's how you can do it effectively.

package main import ( "testing" "github.com/stretchr/testify/mock" ) // Step 1: Create an interface for the dependency type Database interface { GetData(id int) string } // Step 2: Create a mock struct that implements the interface type MockDatabase struct { mock.Mock } func (m *MockDatabase) GetData(id int) string { args := m.Called(id) return args.String(0) } // Step 3: The function to benchmark func FetchData(db Database, id int) string { return db.GetData(id) } // Step 4: Write the benchmark func BenchmarkFetchData(b *testing.B) { mockDB := new(MockDatabase) mockDB.On("GetData", 1).Return("mocked data") for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ { FetchData(mockDB, 1) } mockDB.AssertExpectations(b) }

Go mock dependencies benchmarking unit tests