End-to-end testing of HTTP requests/responses is easy with Go.

Writing and maintaining high level test is even easier with ht.

ht tries to achieve the following:

• Make generating all common HTTP requests easy.
• Provide high- and low-level checks on the received response.
• Make measuring response times easy.
• Make it easy to generate a certain load.

ht is not the jack of all trades in testing web applications:

• Simulating browsers (evaluating JavaScript or even rendering is not done.

Installing ht should be simple if Go 1.5 (pre beta is okay) and git are available and working:

• Run GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 go get github.com/vdobler/ht/cmd/ht which should download, compile and install everything.
• Run $GOPATH/bin/ht help to get you started.

For a start have a look at the

Tutorial https://github.com/vdobler/ht/blob/master/cmd/ht/Tutorial.md

and see the the godoc for reference:

• Tests, Checks and their options: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/ht
• Details to Conditions used in Checks: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/condition
• Image fingerprinting: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/fingerprint
• The ht command itself: https://godoc.org/github.com/vdobler/ht/cmd/ht Run ht help for details
• An example test suite can be found in https://github.com/vdobler/ht/blob/master/testdata/sample.suite