It’s time to release my “side project” which has been evolving over the last several months: Gocheck. I’ve been watching Go for some time, and have been getting more and more interested in the language. My first attempt to write something interesting in it made it obvious that there would be benefit in having a richer testing platform than what is available in the standard library. That said, I do understand why the standard one is slim: it’s pretty minimalist, because it’s used by itself to test the rest of the platform. With Gocheck, though, I don’t have that requirement. I’m able to trust that the standard library works well, and focus on having features which will make me more productive while writing tests, including features such as:

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