Usually no — not directly in the loop body. Why: if you call `assert` inside a plain `for` loop, failures are harder to attribute to a specific case, and one bad case can make the output less clear. In Go, the cleaner pattern is table-driven tests with `t.Run(...)` subtests, then do assertions inside each subtest. Better: ```go func TestSomething(t *testing.T) { tests := []struct { name string input int want int }{ {"one", 1, 2}, {"two", 2, 3}, } for _, tt := range tests { tt := tt t.Run(tt....
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Usually no — not directly in the loop body.
Why: if you call `assert` inside a plain `for` loop, failures are harder to attribute to a specific case, and one bad case can make the output less clear. In Go, the cleaner pattern is table-driven tests with `t.Run(...)` subtests, then do assertions inside each subtest.
Better:
```go
func TestSomething(t *testing.T) {
tests := []struct {
name string
input int
want int
}{
{"one", 1, 2},
{"two", 2, 3},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
tt := tt
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
got := doThing(tt.input)
assert.Equal(t, tt.want, got)
})
}
}
```
This gives you:
- isolated failures per case
- better test output
- easier debugging
- optional parallel execution per case
If the loop is not iterating test cases, and you intentionally want multiple soft checks in one test, `assert` can still work — but for table-driven tests, subtests are the preferred approach.
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