Testing example for bash scripts  

Fun programming with bash and writing tests

A testing example for bash scripts

 Author: Anderson Santos

_{Built with ❤︎ by Anderson Santos and contributors}

Table of contents

• Features
• Getting Started
  • How to use it
• Running the tests
• Built With
• Authors
• License
• Acknowledgments

Features

• Command parsing
  • Parse commands in different orders
  • Check for required commands
  • Parse commands separated by space
• Testing
  • Generates code coverage
  • Runs linter and checker
• Build
  • Show elapsed time
  • Fail if the coverage is bellow some threshold
• Special methods for logging
• CI
  • Configured to work with travis
  • Cache the docker images
  • Detects if it is building from travis to generate coveralls results
• Testing Examples:
  • Table testing
  • Functional and unit tests
  • Combination of parameters validation

Getting Started

• src: Script source files
• tests: The test files
• build.sh: The build script to run the tests

Structure:

project/
├── src/
├── test/
│   │── functional-tests.html
│   │── unit-tests.html
└── build.sh

How to use it

Download it; fork or clone it

Running the tests

Just call:

./build.sh

It will execute all tests inside test dir and generate a coverage report at: test/coverage folder

Last test results

Built With

• Shunit2 - The bash testing framework
• kcov - Code coverage tool for compiled programs, Python and Bash which uses debugging information to collect and report data without special compilation options
• shellcheck - Bash checker

Authors

• Anderson Santos - Initial work - supergarotinho

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD-3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

We use koalaman/shellcheck image to run shellcheck