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Bats-core: Bash Automated Testing System (2018)

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.

A Bats test file is a Bash script with special syntax for defining test cases. Under the hood, each test case is just a function with a description.

#!/usr/bin/env bats

@test "addition using bc" {
  result="$(echo 2+2 | bc)"
  [ "$result" -eq 4 ]
}

@test "addition using dc" {
  result="$(echo 2 2+p | dc)"
  [ "$result" -eq 4 ]
}

Bats is most useful when testing software written in Bash, but you can use it to test any UNIX program.

Test cases consist of standard shell commands. Bats makes use of Bash's errexit (set -e) option when running test cases. If every command in the test case exits with a 0 status code (success), the test passes. In this way, each line is an assertion of truth.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017: This is a mirrored fork of Bats at commit 0360811. It was created via git clone --bare and git push --mirror. See the Background section below for more information.

Table of contents

• Installation
  • Supported Bash versions
  • Homebrew
  • npm
  • Installing Bats from source
  • Running Bats in Docker
    • Building a Docker image
• Usage
• Writing tests
  • run: Test other commands
  • load: Share common code
  • skip: Easily skip tests
  • setup and teardown: Pre- and post-test hooks
  • Code outside of test cases
  • File descriptor 3 (read this if Bats hangs)
  • Printing to the terminal
  • Special variables
• Support
• Version history
• Background
  • Why was this fork created?
  • What's the plan and why?
  • Contact us
• Copyright

Installation

Supported Bash versions

The following is a list of Bash versions that are currently supported by Bats. This list is composed of platforms that Bats has been tested on and is known to work on without issues.

• Bash versions:

  • Everything from 3.2.57(1) and higher (macOS's highest version)

• Operating systems:

  • Arch Linux
  • Alpine Linux
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • FreeBSD 10.x and 11.x
  • macOS
  • Windows 10

• Latest version for the following Windows platforms:

  • Git for Windows Bash (MSYS2 based)
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux
  • MSYS2
  • Cygwin

Homebrew

On macOS, you can install Homebrew if you haven't already, then run:

$ brew install bats-core

npm

You can install the Bats npm package via:

# To install globally:
$ npm install -g bats

# To install into your project and save it as one of the "devDependencies" in
# your package.json:
$ npm install --save-dev bats

Installing Bats from source

Check out a copy of the Bats repository. Then, either add the Bats bin directory to your $PATH, or run the provided install.sh command with the location to the prefix in which you want to install Bats. For example, to install Bats into /usr/local,

$ git clone https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core.git
$ cd bats-core
$ ./install.sh /usr/local

Note that you may need to run install.sh with sudo if you do not have permission to write to the installation prefix.

Running Bats in Docker

There is an official image on the Docker Hub:

$ docker run -it bats/bats:latest --version

Building a Docker image

Check out a copy of the Bats repository, then build a container image:

$ git clone https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core.git
$ cd bats-core
$ docker build --tag bats/bats:latest .

This creates a local Docker image called bats/bats:latest based on Alpine Linux (to push to private registries, tag it with another organisation, e.g. my-org/bats:latest).

To run Bats' internal test suite (which is in the container image at /opt/bats/test):

$ docker run -it bats/bats:latest /opt/bats/test

To run a test suite from your local machine, mount in a volume and direct Bats to its path inside the container:

$ docker run -it -v "$(pwd):/code" bats/bats:latest /code/test

This is a minimal Docker image. If more tools are required this can be used as a base image in a Dockerfile using FROM <Docker image>. In the future there may be images based on Debian, and/or with more tools installed (curl and openssl, for example). If you require a specific configuration please search and +1 an issue or raise a new issue.

Further usage examples are in the wiki.

Usage

Bats comes with two manual pages. After installation you can view them with man 1 bats (usage manual) and man 7 bats (writing test files manual). Also, you can view the available command line options that Bats supports by calling Bats with the -h or --help options. These are the options that Bats currently supports:

Bats x.y.z
Usage: bats [-c] [-r] [-p | -t] <test> [<test> ...]

  <test> is the path to a Bats test file, or the path to a directory
  containing Bats test files.

  -c, --count      Count the number of test cases without running any tests
  -h, --help       Display this help message
  -p, --pretty     Show results in pretty format (default for terminals)
  -r, --recursive  Include tests in subdirectories
  -t, --tap        Show results in TAP format
  -v, --version    Display the version number

To run your tests, invoke the bats interpreter with one or more paths to test files ending with the .bats extension, or paths to directories containing test files. (bats will not only discover .bats files at the top level of each directory; it will not recurse.)

Test cases from each file are run sequentially and in isolation. If all the test cases pass, bats exits with a 0 status code. If there are any failures, bats exits with a 1 status code.

When you run Bats from a terminal, you'll see output as each test is performed, with a check-mark next to the test's name if it passes or an "X" if it fails.

$ bats addition.bats
 ✓ addition using bc
 ✓ addition using dc

2 tests, 0 failures

If Bats is not connected to a terminal—in other words, if you run it from a continuous integration system, or redirect its output to a file—the results are displayed in human-readable, machine-parsable TAP format.

You can force TAP output from a terminal by invoking Bats with the --tap option.

$ bats --tap addition.bats
1..2
ok 1 addition using bc
ok 2 addition using dc

Writing tests

Each Bats test file is evaluated n+1 times, where n is the number of test cases in the file. The first run counts the number of test cases, then iterates over the test cases and executes each one in its own process.

For more details about how Bats evaluates test files, see Bats Evaluation Process on the wiki.

run: Test other commands

Many Bats tests need to run a command and then make assertions about its exit status and output. Bats includes a run helper that invokes its arguments as a command, saves the exit status and output into special global variables, and then returns with a 0 status code so you can continue to make assertions in your test case.

For example, let's say you're testing that the foo command, when passed a nonexistent filename, exits with a 1 status code and prints an error message.

@test "invoking foo with a nonexistent file prints an error" {
  run foo nonexistent_filename
  [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
  [ "$output" = "foo: no such file 'nonexistent_filename'" ]
}

The $status variable contains the status code of the command, and the $output variable contains the combined contents of the command's standard output and standard error streams.

A third special variable, the $lines array, is available for easily accessing individual lines of output. For example, if you want to test that invoking foo without any arguments prints usage information on the first line:

@test "invoking foo without arguments prints usage" {
  run foo
  [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
  [ "${lines[0]}" = "usage: foo <filename>" ]
}

load: Share common code

You may want to share common code across multiple test files. Bats includes a convenient load command for sourcing a Bash source file relative to the location of the current test file. For example, if you have a Bats test in test/foo.bats, the command

load test_helper

will source the script test/test_helper.bash in your test file. This can be useful for sharing functions to set up your environment or load fixtures.

skip: Easily skip tests

Tests can be skipped by using the skip command at the point in a test you wish to skip.

@test "A test I don't want to execute for now" {
  skip
  run foo
  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
}

Optionally, you may include a reason for skipping:

@test "A test I don't want to execute for now" {
  skip "This command will return zero soon, but not now"
  run foo
  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
}

Or you can skip conditionally:

@test "A test which should run" {
  if [ foo != bar ]; then
    skip "foo isn't bar"
  fi

  run foo
  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
}

setup and teardown: Pre- and post-test hooks

You can define special setup and teardown functions, which run before and after each test case, respectively. Use these to load fixtures, set up your environment, and clean up when you're done.

Code outside of test cases

You can include code in your test file outside of @test functions. For example, this may be useful if you want to check for dependencies and fail immediately if they're not present. However, any output that you print in code outside of @test, setup or teardown functions must be redirected to stderr (>&2). Otherwise, the output may cause Bats to fail by polluting the TAP stream on stdout.

File descriptor 3 (read this if Bats hangs)

Bats makes a separation between output from the code under test and output that forms the TAP stream (which is produced by Bats internals). This is done in order to produce TAP-compliant output. In the Printing to the terminal section, there are details on how to use file descriptor 3 to print custom text properly.

A side effect of using file descriptor 3 is that, under some circumstances, it can cause Bats to block and execution to seem dead without reason. This can happen if a child process is spawned in the background from a test. In this case, the child process will inherit file descriptor 3. Bats, as the parent process, will wait for the file descriptor to be closed by the child process before continuing execution. If the child process takes a lot of time to complete (eg if the child process is a sleep 100 command or a background service that will run indefinitely), Bats will be similarly blocked for the same amount of time.

To prevent this from happening, close FD 3 explicitly when running any command that may launch long-running child processes, e.g. command_name 3>- &.

Printing to the terminal

Bats produces output compliant with version 12 of the TAP protocol. The produced TAP stream is by default piped to a pretty formatter for human consumption, but if Bats is called with the -t flag, then the TAP stream is directly printed to the console.

This has implications if you try to print custom text to the terminal. As mentioned in File descriptor 3, bats provides a special file descriptor, &3, that you should use to print your custom text. Here are some detailed guidelines to refer to:

• Printing from within a test function:

  • To have text printed from within a test function you need to redirect the output to file descriptor 3, eg echo 'text' >&3. This output will become part of the TAP stream. You are encouraged to prepend text printed this way with a hash (eg echo '# text' >&3) in order to produce 100% TAP compliant output. Otherwise, depending on the 3rd-party tools you use to analyze the TAP stream, you can encounter unexpected behavior or errors.

  • The pretty formatter that Bats uses by default to process the TAP stream will filter out and not print text output to file descriptor 3.

  • Text that is output directly to stdout or stderr (file descriptor 1 or 2), ie echo 'text' is considered part of the test function output and is printed only on test failures for diagnostic purposes, regardless of the formatter used (TAP or pretty).

• Printing from within the setup or teardown functions: The same hold true as for printing with test functions.

• Printing outside test or setup/teardown functions:

  • Regardless of where text is redirected to (stdout, stderr or file descriptor 3) text is immediately visible in the terminal.

  • Text printed in such a way, will disable pretty formatting. Also, it will make output non-compliant with the TAP spec. The reason for this is that each test file is evaluated n+1 times (as metioned earlier). The first run will cause such output to be produced before the plan line is printed, contrary to the spec that requires the plan line to be either the first or the last line of the output.

  • Due to internal pipes/redirects, output to stderr is always printed first.

Special variables

There are several global variables you can use to introspect on Bats tests:

• $BATS_TEST_FILENAME is the fully expanded path to the Bats test file.
• $BATS_TEST_DIRNAME is the directory in which the Bats test file is located.
• $BATS_TEST_NAMES is an array of function names for each test case.
• $BATS_TEST_NAME is the name of the function containing the current test case.
• $BATS_TEST_DESCRIPTION is the description of the current test case.
• $BATS_TEST_NUMBER is the (1-based) index of the current test case in the test file.
• $BATS_TMPDIR is the location to a directory that may be used to store temporary files.

Support

The Bats source code repository is hosted on GitHub. There you can file bugs on the issue tracker or submit tested pull requests for review.

For real-world examples from open-source projects using Bats, see Projects Using Bats on the wiki.

To learn how to set up your editor for Bats syntax highlighting, see Syntax Highlighting on the wiki.

Version history

Bats is SemVer compliant.

1.1.0 (July 8, 2018)

This is the first release with new features relative to the original Bats 0.4.0.

Added:

• The -r, --recursive flag to scan directory arguments recursively for *.bats files (#109)
• The contrib/rpm/bats.spec file to build RPMs (#111)

Changed:

• Travis exercises latest versions of Bash from 3.2 through 4.4 (#116, #117)
• Error output highlights invalid command line options (#45, #46, #118)
• Replaced echo with printf (#120)

Fixed:

• Fixed BATS_ERROR_STATUS getting lost when bats_error_trap fired multiple times under Bash 4.2.x (#110)
• Updated bin/bats symlink resolution, handling the case on CentOS where /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin (#113, #115)

1.0.2 (June 18, 2018)

• Fixed sstephenson/bats#240, whereby skip messages containing parentheses were truncated (#48)
• Doc improvements:
  • Docker usage (#94)
  • Better README badges (#101)
  • Better installation instructions (#102, #104)
• Packaging/installation improvements:
  • package.json update (#100)
  • Moved libexec/ files to libexec/bats-core/, improved install.sh (#105)

1.0.1 (June 9, 2018)

• Fixed a BATS_CWD bug introduced in #91 whereby it was set to the parent of PWD, when it should've been set to PWD itself (#98). This caused file names in stack traces to contain the basename of PWD as a prefix, when the names should've been purely relative to PWD.
• Ensure the last line of test output prints when it doesn't end with a newline (#99). This was a quasi-bug introduced by replacing sed with while in #88.

1.0.0 (June 8, 2018)

1.0.0 generally preserves compatibility with 0.4.0, but with some Bash compatibility improvements and a massive performance boost. In other words:

• all existing tests should remain compatible
• tests that might've failed or exhibited unexpected behavior on earlier versions of Bash should now also pass or behave as expected

Changes:

• Added support for Docker.
• Added support for test scripts that have the unofficial strict mode enabled.
• Improved stability on Windows and macOS platforms.
• Massive performance improvements, especially on Windows (#8)
• Workarounds for inconsistent behavior between Bash versions (#82)
• Workaround for preserving stack info after calling an exported function under Bash < 4.4 (#87)
• Fixed TAP compliance for skipped tests
• Added support for tabs in test names.
• bin/bats and install.sh now work reliably on Windows (#91)

0.4.0 (August 13, 2014)

• Improved the display of failing test cases. Bats now shows the source code of failing test lines, along with full stack traces including function names, filenames, and line numbers.
• Improved the display of the pretty-printed test summary line to include the number of skipped tests, if any.
• Improved the speed of the preprocessor, dramatically shortening test and suite startup times.
• Added support for absolute pathnames to the load helper.
• Added support for single-line @test definitions.
• Added bats(1) and bats(7) manual pages.
• Modified the bats command to default to TAP output when the $CI variable is set, to better support environments such as Travis CI.

0.3.1 (October 28, 2013)

• Fixed an incompatibility with the pretty formatter in certain environments such as tmux.
• Fixed a bug where the pretty formatter would crash if the first line of a test file's output was invalid TAP.

0.3.0 (October 21, 2013)

• Improved formatting for tests run from a terminal. Failing tests are now colored in red, and the total number of failing tests is displayed at the end of the test run. When Bats is not connected to a terminal (e.g. in CI runs), or when invoked with the --tap flag, output is displayed in standard TAP format.
• Added the ability to skip tests using the skip command.
• Added a message to failing test case output indicating the file and line number of the statement that caused the test to fail.
• Added "ad-hoc" test suite support. You can now invoke bats with multiple filename or directory arguments to run all the specified tests in aggregate.
• Added support for test files with Windows line endings.
• Fixed regular expression warnings from certain versions of Bash.
• Fixed a bug running tests containing lines that begin with -e.

0.2.0 (November 16, 2012)

• Added test suite support. The bats command accepts a directory name containing multiple test files to be run in aggregate.
• Added the ability to count the number of test cases in a file or suite by passing the -c flag to bats.
• Preprocessed sources are cached between test case runs in the same file for better performance.

0.1.0 (December 30, 2011)

• Initial public release.

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Background

Why was this fork created?

The original Bats repository needed new maintainers, and has not been actively maintained since 2013. While there were volunteers for maintainers, attempts to organize issues, and outstanding PRs, the lack of write-access to the repo hindered progress severely.

What's the plan and why?

The rough plan, originally outlined here is to create a new, mirrored mainline (this repo!). An excerpt:

1. Roadmap 1.0: There are already existing high-quality PRs, and often-requested features and issues, especially here at #196. Leverage these and consolidate into a single roadmap.

2. Create or choose a fork or mirror of this repo to use as the new mainline: Repoint existing PRs (whichever ones are possible) to the new mainline, get that repo to a stable 1.0. IMO we should create an organization and grant 2-3 people admin and write access.

Doing it this way accomplishes a number of things:

1. Removes the dependency on the original maintainer
2. Enables collaboration and contribution flow again
3. Allows the possibility of merging back to original, or merging from original if or when the need arises
4. Prevents lock-out by giving administrative access to more than one person, increases transferability

Contact us

• We are #bats on freenode

Copyright

© 2018 bats-core organization

© 2014 Sam Stephenson

Bats is released under an MIT-style license; see LICENSE.md for details.