Comments on: How to test shell scripts

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By: dgvncsz0f

dgvncsz0f — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:17:45 +0000

There is also a golden-test approach: http://joyful.com/shelltestrunner/

I find it quite useful, and it is possible to test shell scripts using
a pattern like this:

— script.sh
some_function () {
…
}

— script.test
. script.sh; some_function [args…]
<<>>
expected stdout
>>>2
expected stderr
>>=0 # execpted exit code

By: descartavel1

descartavel1 — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:43:17 +0000

had you been writing scripts like it’s the norm when writing Makefile all you had to do was replace your collateral generator command with something innocuous.

e.g.
SORT=/bin/sort
CURL=/bin/curl
$SORT $1 | $CURL http://example.com/save.php -T — #or something like this, totally forgot now how to POST something with curl

then you could have another script for testing that that would call the initial script but with $CURL being /bin/echo or something. and for repeatability testing you can write another script that does that uses a know input and compare that to a know output of the echo.

never touched any of the frameworks you mention and would be scared of what complexity they introduce on my scripts to begin with.