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testify package provides assert package and require package. Some people only use require whereas others intentionally mix assert and require.

I thought I’m the one who care the difference, but Jacob pointed out that I wasn’t careful enough at that time;

nit: please prefer to use assert if the tests allow it. Preferring assert, over require, helps extract as many relevant failures in a single test run.

Yes! For sure :)

But why?

testify’s README explains the difference of the behaviors but doesn’t explain “why”. Instead it mentions;

See t.FailNow for details.

However, t.FailNow only says;

FailNow marks the function as having failed and stops its execution by calling runtime.Goexit (which then runs all deferred calls in the current goroutine). Execution will continue at the next test or benchmark. FailNow must be called from the goroutine running the test or benchmark function, not from other goroutines created during the test. Calling FailNow does not stop those other goroutines.

Yeah. But why does it provide Fail() and FailNow()?

I think Google Test Primer is probably the best reference regarding “why”.

The assertions come in pairs that test the same thing but have different effects on the current function. ASSERT_* versions generate fatal failures when they fail, and abort the current function. EXPECT_* versions generate nonfatal failures, which don’t abort the current function. Usually EXPECT_* are preferred, as they allow more than one failure to be reported in a test. However, you should use ASSERT_* if it doesn’t make sense to continue when the assertion in question fails.

Unless it is coming from Plan 9, I think Fail() and FailNow() are coming from Google Test.