Using Cucumber to test function written in BASH

[Kfir Lavi]

Hi,
I'm currently using BASH as my programing language, and use shunit2 as my unit test library.
I have thought of using cucumber to test my bash scripts.
System tests are obvious and I can use cucumber and Aruba to test the script from the outside.
My question is: Can I use Cucumber to test my bash functions? If yes, How can I do that?

Regards,
Kfir

[Rob Park]

I don't see why not. You certainly can exec stuff from the command line from your steps and then verify system results.

You may also want to check out Destroy All Software for a screencast named "Test Driving Shell Scripts". 

Gary uses shunit for that.

//rob

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[Kfir Lavi]

Thanks,
I would like to test function inside the file like:

log() {
   logger aaa
}

Then test this function with cucumber.

Kfir

[aslak hellesoy]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Kfir Lavi <lavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm currently using BASH as my programing language, and use shunit2 as my
> unit test library.
> I have thought of using cucumber to test my bash scripts.
> System tests are obvious and I can use cucumber and Aruba to test the script
> from the outside.

That sounds like an appropriate level of testing with Cucumber and bash scripts.

> My question is: Can I use Cucumber to test my bash functions? If yes, How
> can I do that?
>

Cucumber is not a unit testing tool. (I'd consider a bash function a
"unit"). So this would be using the wrong tool for the job.
If you need to test individual functions I'd rather use a bash unit
testing tool. I'm sure there's tons of them out there.

Aslak

[Cleide Possamai]

Hi Aslak,

Did you have proceed with the idea of using Cucumber to test your BASH programms? I got curious about it...

Cleide

[Aslak Hellesøy]

On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 18:01, Cleide Possamai wrote:

Hi Aslak,

Did you have proceed with the idea of using Cucumber to test your BASH programms?

I have already replied to that question in this thread. 

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