shtst 0.1.1

shtst - simple cli testing

shtst is a command-line tool for testing command-line programs against a simple specification of their expected output and exit code given certain options and input.

It is inspired by (and similar to) shelltestrunner.

Test Specification Format

# '#' starts a comment line; blank lines are ignored

# '$' starts a command line
$ true

# '?' specifies the expected return code [default: 0]
$ false
? 1

# '>' starts a stdout specification (which ends at the first line that
# is either blank or starts with a '#', '$', '?', '<', or '>')
$ echo foo
>
foo

# '<' starts an input specification (which ends the same way)
$ cat
<
foo
bar
>
foo
bar

# input from the previous command (if any) is reused if not specified
$ wc -l
2

# prefixing the input/output lines with '|' allows blank lines and
# other input/output that would otherwise end the specification (and
# lines that start with '|')
$ printf "foo\n\n<>\n"
>
|foo
|
|<>

# instead of literal lines of output, you can provide a regex
# (delimited by '/' and optionally followed by flags: 'i' for case
# insensitive, 'm' for multiline, and 's' for dotall) immediately
# after '>' or '>2'
$ printf "Line 1 foo\nLine 2 bar\nLine 3 baz\n"
> /^line 1.*^line 2/ims

# use '>2' instead of '>' to specify stderr instead of stdout
$ cat --oops
>2 /unrecognized option/
? 1

# use a '!' before the exit code to negate the test
$ echo 'does not return 42'
? !42

# no stdout/stderr specification means anything is accepted;
# explicitly use an empty specification if necessary
$ echo OK
>2

A test case always starts with a command line. All input/output/exit code specifications belong to the preceding command line. With one exception: you can specify input before the first command, which will then be used for all subsequent commands until the next input specification.

<
foo
bar
baz

$ cat
>
foo
bar
baz

$ wc -l
> 3

Help

$ shtst --help

Tab Completion

For Bash, add this to ~/.bashrc:

eval "$(_SHTST_COMPLETE=source_bash shtst)"

For Zsh, add this to ~/.zshrc:

eval "$(_SHTST_COMPLETE=source_zsh shtst)"

For Fish, add this to ~/.config/fish/completions/shtst.fish:

eval (env _SHTST_COMPLETE=source_fish shtst)

Requirements

• Python >= 3.7 + click.

Debian/Ubuntu

$ apt install python3-click

Installing

Using pip

$ pip install shtst

NB: depending on your system you may need to use e.g. pip3 --user instead of just pip.

From git

NB: this installs the latest development version, not the latest release.

$ git clone https://github.com/obfusk/shtst.git
$ cd shtst
$ pip install -e .

NB: you may need to add e.g. ~/.local/bin to your $PATH in order to run shtst.

To update to the latest development version:

$ cd shtst
$ git pull --rebase

License