> In a nutshell what we want is to test is "Will generate_deps generate a Godeps file that can mirror my current setup?"

That's not what we're doing.

> Also: when I run locally ./bin/generate_deps on my machine after running johnny_deps the following happens.
> So this test is both passing and the tool is broken (or am I using it wrong? that's a possibility).

You're supposed to run generate_deps in a folder with Go source files, otherwise `go list` won't work obviously.