bats Command Examples

Bash Automated Testing System: a TAP (https://testanything.org/) compliant testing framework for Bash. More information: https://bats-core.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html.

• Run a BATS test script and output results in the TAP (Test Anything Protocol) format:

bats {{[-t|--tap]}} {{path/to/test.bats}}

• Count test cases of a test script without running any tests:

bats {{[-c|--count]}} {{path/to/test.bats}}

• Run BATS test cases recursively (files with a .bats extension):

bats {{[-r|--recursive]}} {{path/to/directory}}

• Output results in a specific format:

bats {{[-F|--formatter]}} {{pretty|tap|tap13|junit}} {{path/to/test.bats}}

• Add timing information to tests:

bats {{[-T|--timing]}} {{path/to/test.bats}}

• Run specific number of jobs in parallel (requires GNU parallel to be installed):

bats {{[-j|--jobs]}} {{number}} {{path/to/test.bats}}