Unit testing for shell scripts

Question

Pretty much every product I\'ve worked on over the years has involved some level of shell scripts (or batch files, PowerShell etc. on Windows). Even though we wrote the bul

Answer 1

Wondering why nobody mentioned BATS. It's up-to-date and TAP-compliant.

Describe:

#!/usr/bin/env bats

@test "addition using bc" {
  result="$(echo 2+2 | bc)"
  [ "$result" -eq 4 ]
}

Run:

$ bats addition.bats
 ✓ addition using bc

1 tests, 0 failures