Run tests in background with golang

With the new "gogland" IDE there is no support(yet) for running tests on each save.

However, if you run ubuntu, you could use the following script to continously run the tests in the background and get notified when you a) break the tests b) fix the tests.

	#!/bin/bash
	failing=0
	while :
	do
	go test > /dev/null
	if [ "$?" = "1" ]; then
	if [ "$failing" = "1" ]; then
	echo "Continuing failure!"
	else
	failing=1
	echo "tests failed"
	notify-send "go tests failed" -t 1500
	fi
	go test
	else
	if [ "$failing" = "1" ]; then
	notify-send "go tests fixed" -t 1500
	echo "Tests fixed."
	fi
	failing=0
	fi
	sleep 1
	done

view raw continous_gotest_notify.sh hosted with ❤ by GitHub

download the script:

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nilsmagnus/8d5a431f19760ddcaa5d8c12d22b13f9/raw/c16fba1f9be83c395a3e4e493c72df8c715fe896/continous_gotest_notify.sh 

execute the script:

sh continous_gotest_notify.sh