Use go test as unit test runner

.codecov.yml

@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ coverage:
         informational: true
 comment:
   require_changes: true
+ignore:
+  - "**/fake_*.go"

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
             .github/.cache/buster-for-unit-tests
 
       - name: Run Tests
-        run: make unit-test CI=true
+        run: make unit-test
 
       - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@e28ff129e5465c2c0dcc6f003fc735cb6ae0c673 # v4.5.0

Makefile

@@ -55,10 +55,6 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring plus,$(MAKECMDGOALS)))
    PLUS_ENABLED = true
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(CI),true)
-	GITHUB_OUTPUT := --github-output
-endif
-
 .PHONY: help
 help: Makefile ## Display this help
 	@grep -hE '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "; printf "Usage:\n\n	make \033[36m<target>\033[0m [VARIABLE=value...]\n\nTargets:\n\n"}; {printf "	 \033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
@@ -191,11 +187,8 @@ lint: ## Run golangci-lint against code
 
 .PHONY: unit-test
 unit-test: ## Run unit tests for the go code
-	# We have to run the tests in the cmd package using `go test` because of a bug with the CLI library cobra. See https://github.com/spf13/cobra/issues/2104.
-	go test -buildvcs ./cmd/... -race -shuffle=on -coverprofile=cmd-coverage.out -covermode=atomic
-	go run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --randomize-all --randomize-suites --race --keep-going --fail-on-pending --fail-fast --trace --covermode=atomic --coverprofile=coverage.out --force-newlines $(GITHUB_OUTPUT) -p -v -r internal
+	go test ./cmd/... ./internal/... -buildvcs -race -shuffle=on -coverprofile=coverage.out -covermode=atomic
 	go tool cover -html=coverage.out -o cover.html
-	go tool cover -html=cmd-coverage.out -o cmd-cover.html
 
 .PHONY: njs-unit-test
 njs-unit-test: ## Run unit tests for the njs httpmatches module

cmd/gateway/commands_test.go

@@ -40,21 +40,6 @@ func testFlag(t *testing.T, cmd *cobra.Command, test flagTestCase) {
 	}
 }
 
-/*
-This test cannot be run with ginkgo. Ginkgo reports the following error:
-* Unexpected error:
-*       <*errors.errorString | 0xc0004746b0>:
-*       unknown flag: --test.v
-*       {
-*           s: "unknown flag: --test.v",
-*       }
-*   occurred
-*
-* This is because cobra sets the args of the command to the OS args when args are nil, and adds the testing flags
-* that ginkgo passes to the testing binary as flags on the command. This does not happen with the `go test` flags
-* because those only have one dash (e.g. -test) and are ignored by cobra.
-* See https://github.com/spf13/cobra/issues/2104.
-*/
 func TestRootCmd(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	testCase := flagTestCase{
@@ -410,21 +395,6 @@ func TestProvisionerModeCmdFlagValidation(t *testing.T) {
 	testFlag(t, createProvisionerModeCommand(), testCase)
 }
 
-/*
-This test cannot be run with ginkgo. Ginkgo reports the following error for the "omitted flag" case:
-* Unexpected error:
-*       <*errors.errorString | 0xc0004746b0>:
-*       unknown flag: --test.v
-*       {
-*           s: "unknown flag: --test.v",
-*       }
-*   occurred
-*
-* This is because cobra sets the args of the command to the OS args when args are nil, and adds the testing flags
-* that ginkgo passes to the testing binary as flags on the command. This does not happen with the `go test` flags
-* because those only have one dash (e.g. -test) and are ignored by cobra.
-* See https://github.com/spf13/cobra/issues/2104.
-*/
 func TestSleepCmdFlagValidation(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	tests := []flagTestCase{

tests/Makefile

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ ifneq ($(GINKGO_LABEL),)
 	override GINKGO_FLAGS += --label-filter "$(GINKGO_LABEL)"
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(CI),true)
+	GITHUB_OUTPUT := --github-output
+endif
+
 .PHONY: update-go-modules
 update-go-modules: ## Update the gateway-api go modules to latest main version
 	go get -u sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api@main