Remove Duplicates Tests 🧹

Why Deduplication? ❄️

When developing or maintaining a software, it is common for test suites to grow in size. This often results in redundancy, as many test cases cover the same functions or scenarios. This is where Test Deduplication comes into play.

It simplifies the testing process by removing redundant test cases, which saves time and resources while keeping the testcases which adds value to the overall coverage of the application.

Usage 🛠️

To detect duplicate tests, simply run the below command, like so:

keploy test -c "docker compose up" --containerName containerName --dedup

For Golang Applications

1. Pre-requisite

Install the keploy/go-sdk/v3/keploy : -

go get github.com/keploy/go-sdk/v3/keploy

Add the following on top of your main application file : -

import _ "github.com/keploy/go-sdk/v3/keploy"

Update the go build command in Dockerfile to add new flags which is required for deduplication (use same flags for native builds)

RUN go build -cover -covermode=atomic -coverpkg=./... -o /app/main .

2. Run Deduplication

For Docker, run:

keploy test -c "docker compose up" --containerName containerName --dedup

For Native, run:

keploy test -c ./main --dedup

This will generate a dedupData.yaml file

After this Run

keploy dedup

This command will create a duplicates.yaml file which will contain all the test cases which was found to be duplicate.

In order to remove all the duplicate test cases, run the following command:

keploy dedup --rm