bats-testing-patterns

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for shell scripts with built-in assertions, fixtures, and test patterns for CI/CD and TDD.

• Testing framework for shell scripts using TAP format
• Supports setup/teardown, assertions, and fixtures
• Enables test-driven development and CI/CD integration
• Works across bash, sh, and dash dialects

• Simple, natural syntax for test writing
• TAP output compatible with CI systems
• Supports fixtures and shared resources
• Parallel test execution capability
• Built-in assertion helpers for exit codes and output
• Setup/teardown functions per test or globally
• Mocking and stubbing for external commands
• Cross-shell environment compatibility

1. 1.Install Bats via brew, git, or npm
2. 2.Structure tests in a dedicated tests/ directory with fixtures and helpers
3. 3.Write test files with setup/teardown functions and assertions