TST: shell test cases

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Test Framework Output Formats

POSIX return code

• 0 OK
• 1< # of test failures

Nagios

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/pluginapi.html

• 0 OK, 1 WARNING, 2 CRITICAL, 3 UNKNOWN
• https://kiip.github.io/pynagios/latest/tutorial.html

TAP protocol

http://testanything.org/producers.html

• http://github.com/sstephenson/bats
• http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Tap-functions
• https://github.com/mlafeldt/Sharness
• git's `test-lib.sh``
• https://github.com/tapper/Tapper-autoreport/blob/master/bash-test-utils

xUnit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUnit

• XML-based output format
• supported by e.g. jenkins
• can be used for building charts of test performance over time

Testing Frameworks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks

shunit2

LGPL, SVN

• https://shunit2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/source/2.1/doc/shunit2.html#abstract
• https://www.sysorchestra.com/2014/10/12/travisshunit2/
• curl -L "https://shunit2.googlecode.com/files/shunit2-2.1.6.tgz" | tar zx
• git mirror (2011): https://github.com/zandev/shunit2

shunit2 xUnit output (e.g. for jenkins)

• https://code.google.com/p/shunit2/issues/detail?id=16
• jeremycarroll/shunit2@zandev:master...master

bashunit

BSD, GIT

• https://github.com/djui/bashunit