shelltestrunner mit Homebrew, apt installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• shelltest

Projektgeschichte

Simon Michael wrote shelltestrunner, taking inspiration from John Wiegley's tests for Ledger. The tool developed three test-specification formats; format 3 is now preferred, while the older formats remain for compatibility and can be converted with the print facility.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project has been packaged for Debian and Ubuntu and is installable through the Haskell Stack and Cabal ecosystems. Its README also names real users of its test formats, including Agda, cblrepo, hledger, and shelltestrunner itself.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users write .test files and run shelltest against files or directories. The runner can recurse through test directories, execute cases in parallel, substitute the executable under test, select or exclude cases, impose timeouts, and compare stdout, stderr, and exit status literally or by regular expression. It has no documented persistent configuration or credentials file.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

shelltestrunner gives package authors a lightweight, language-independent way to test command behavior from the outside. Plain-text fixtures, portable shell selection, parallel execution, filtering, timeouts, and explicit stdout, stderr, and exit-status assertions make it well suited to distribution-level regression tests.

Zeitleiste

• Origins: Simon Michael created shelltestrunner after John Wiegley's Ledger test approach.
• Later development: Format 2 added reusable input and more useful defaults.
• Version 1.9 era: Preferred short-delimiter format 3 became available.
• 2023: The official repository lists release 1.10.

Related projects

• The project is historically connected to Ledger through its inspiration and to hledger through its maintainer and use in that project's tests. Its Haskell implementation relies notably on test-framework and GHC.

Quellen

• https://github.com/simonmichael/shelltestrunner#readme
• https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelltestrunner
• source_facts.package-manager