A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
This report summarizes scanner evidence for stretchr/testify, a Go project with 26,238 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 30,568 lines of code across 77 source files, recording 98 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.2 (Low pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Payload schema: 1.0.0 · Engine: 2.0.0 · Scoring: heuristic-density-v1 · Scan date: 2026-10-31.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 98 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 98 finding(s).
This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.
Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 98 distinct pattern matches across 2 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .ci.ghactions.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | doc.go | 1 | // Module testify is a set of packages that provide many tools for testifying that your code will behave as you intend. | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/doc.go | 1 | // Package mock provides a system by which it is possible to mock your objects | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/doc.go | 21 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/doc.go | 41 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/mock.go | 201 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/mock.go | 281 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/mock.go | 781 | */ | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/mock.go | 801 | // func anyString interface{} { | COMMENT |
| LOW | mock/mock.go | 821 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | mock/mock.go | 901 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/doc.go | 1 | // Package require implements the same assertions as the assert package but | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/doc.go | 21 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 101 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 121 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 161 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 181 | // } | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 341 | // The condition is considered "met" if no errors are raised in a tick. | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 361 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 501 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 1161 | // NotElementsMatchf asserts that the specified listA(array, slice...) is NOT equal to specified | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 1381 | // Both arguments must be pointer variables. Pointer variable sameness is | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 1561 | // Samef asserts that two pointers reference the same object. | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 1581 | // a.Subset([1, 2, 3], {1: "one", 2: "two"}) | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 1661 | h.Helper() | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require_forward.go | 1681 | h.Helper() | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require.go | 121 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require.go | 141 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require.go | 421 | // function can use the CollectT to call other assertions. | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require.go | 441 | return | COMMENT |
| LOW | require/require.go | 2101 | if h, ok := t.(tHelper); ok { | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/difflib/difflib.go | 1 | // Package difflib is a partial port of Python difflib module. | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/difflib/difflib.go | 61 | // the longest contiguous matching subsequence that contains no "junk" | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/difflib/difflib.go | 181 | _, ok := m.bJunk[s] | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/difflib/difflib.go | 201 | // starts earliest in a, and of all those maximal matching blocks that | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/difflib/difflib.go | 281 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | internal/difflib/difflib.go | 341 | nonAdjacent = append(nonAdjacent, Match{i1, j1, k1}) | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/difflib/difflib_test.go | 141 | // and: | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 21 | "fmt" | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 41 | // set this to a tab with "\t" or perhaps two spaces with " ". | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 61 | // with a pointer receiver could technically mutate the value, however, | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 81 | // means it will print the results of invoking the custom error or Stringer | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 101 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 121 | // the number of bytes written and any write error encountered. See | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 141 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 161 | // fmt.Print(c.NewFormatter(a), c.NewFormatter(b)) | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 181 | // NewFormatter for formatting details. | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/config.go | 201 | // Sprintf is a wrapper for fmt.Sprintf that treats each argument as if it were | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/dumpnocgo_test.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2013 Dave Collins <dave@davec.name> | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/dumpcgo_test.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Dave Collins <dave@davec.name> | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/bypass.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Dave Collins <dave@davec.name> | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/internalunsafe_test.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Dave Collins <dave@davec.name> | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/common.go | 81 | // type the passed reflect.Value represents and outputes the result to Writer w. | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/bypasssafe.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Dave Collins <dave@davec.name> | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/dump.go | 181 | // Try to use existing uint8 slices and fall back to converting | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/spew.go | 21 | "io" | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/spew.go | 41 | // This function is shorthand for the following syntax: | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/spew.go | 61 | // passed with a default Formatter interface returned by NewFormatter. See | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/spew.go | 81 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/spew/spew.go | 101 | // | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | README.md | 141 | // NOTE: This method is not being tested here, code that uses this object is. | COMMENT |