Golang tests in sub-directory

Question

I want to create a package in Go with tests and examples for the package as subdirectories to keep the workspace cleaner. Is this possible and if so how?

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Answer 1

EDITED

Built on VonC's answer,

This answer is valid in go1.11. No yet tested in upper go versions.

For those of you who like to keep their tests in a sub-folder, say test, then running

go test ./...

will attempt to run tests in every folder, even those that do not contain any test, thus having a ? in the subsequent report for non-test folders.

Running

go test ./.../test

instead will target only your test folders, thus having a clean report focused on your tests folders only.

CAUTION

Please be mindful that using test sub-folders will prevent coverage report computation. The phylosophy of go is to leave test files in the package folders.