Using Go timers for MQTT testing

Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This article uses a Go timer and the Go select statement to test our MQTT publish and subscribe in a single simple test statement. A quick note on the go testing package: it is much like the JUnit where tests using a particular naming convention TestXXX(t *testing.T) {} will be run automatically with easy to reports having been generated.

The Problem

The following code snippet is directly from the IoTe edge gateway project. One of the primary features of IoTe is the ability to send and receive MQTT messages.

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Using Go timers for MQTT testing

The Problem