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 --tap {{path/to/test.bats}}

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

bats --count {{path/to/test.bats}}

• Run BATS test cases contained in a directory and its subdirectories (files with a .bats extension):

bats --recursive {{path/to/directory}}

• Output results in a specific format:

bats --formatter {{pretty|tap|junit}} {{path/to/test.bats}}