Bats: TAP-compatible testing for Bash

Hi there,<p>Perhaps you could add this to the list of TAP Producers in testanything.org. Here's the link for the Shell producers entry.<p><a href="http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Producers#SH_.2F_Shell_Script" rel="nofollow">http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Producers#SH_.2F_...</a><p>There are two other tools that produce TAP in Shell there, but I haven't used any of them. Before going to sleep I decided give it a try to use Bats in Jenkins. Here's the result:<p><a href="http://www.kinoshita.eti.br/2011/12/30/testing-shell-code-and-producing-tap-using-jenkins/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kinoshita.eti.br/2011/12/30/testing-shell-code-an...</a><p>Thanks for sharing.<p>Cheers, Bruno P. Kinoshita

You could also try wvtest, which is a bit lighter weight and works with any shell, not just bash: <a href="https://github.com/apenwarr/wvtest" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apenwarr/wvtest</a>

Why, for the love of Notch, do people keep porting everything that you're supposed to be doing in a real programming language to Bash? Yes, it's Turing complete, but the syntax is ugly and inconsistent, there is just about no support for data structures, and you have to fork a process to do practically anything!