Unit Testing bash scripts

Question

We have a system that has some bash scripts running besides Java code. Since we are trying to Test Everything That Could Possibly Break, and those bash scripts may break, we

Answer 1

Maybe this can be used, or contributed to

https://thorsteinssonh.github.io/bash_test_tools/

Intended to write results in TAP protocol which I imagine is good for CI, and good for those that want shell environments. I imagine some things run in shell environments so, some might argue should be tested in their shell environment.

Answer 2

I created shellspec because I wanted a easy-to-use and useful tool.

It written by pure POSIX shell script. It has tested with many shells more than shunit2. It has powerful features than bats/bats-core.

For example, support nested block, easy to mock/stub, easy to skip/pending, parameterized tests, assertion line number, execute by line number, parallel execution, random execution, TAP/JUnit formatter, coverage and CI integration, profiler and etc.

See the demo on the project page.

• https://github.com/shellspec/shellspec
• https://shellspec.info/

Answer 3

I’ve tried a lot of the solutions presented here, but found most of them to bulky and hard to use, so I built my own little testing framework: https://github.com/meonlol/t-bash

It’s just one file in the repo that you can simply run directly, with a basic set of JUnit style asserts.

I’ve used it professionally in several internal projects and were able to make our bash scripts super stable and regression resistant.

Answer 4

You might want to take a look at bash_unit:

https://github.com/pgrange/bash_unit

Answer 5

I quite like shell2junit, a utility to generate JUnit-like output from Bash script tests. This is useful because the report generated can then be read by continuous integration systems, such as the JUnit plug-ins for Jenkins and Bamboo.

While shell2junit doesn't provide the comprehensive Bash scripting framework like shunit2, it does allow you have nice reporting of the test results.

Answer 6

Take a look at Outthentic, it is simple, extensible by many languages ( Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash on choice ) and cross platform ( Linux, Windows ) framework to test any command line applications.