I recently started using Go. I installed go's extension on vscode and I can use some commands like go run and go build but when I run go test I get the following error:

go: cannot find main module; see 'go help modules'

although I have a *_test.go file.

When I run go help modules, I get the following output:

Modules are how Go manages dependencies. A module is a collection of packages that are released, versioned, and distributed together. Modules may be downloaded directly from version control repositories or from module proxy servers. For a series of tutorials on modules, see For a detailed reference on modules, see By default, the go command may download modules from It may authenticate modules using the checksum database at Both services are operated by the Go team at Google. The privacy policies for these services are available at and respectively. The go command's download behavior may be configured using GOPROXY, GOSUMDB, GOPRIVATE, and other environment variables. See 'go help environment' and for more information.
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You have to initialize the project before you can run test:

go mod init puppy

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