unit testing from shell scripts?

[Bill Trost]

Hi,

I need to run a set of unit tests that simply consist of seeing if
two files are identical. There are all kinds of Unix tools (diff,
cmp, comm, etc.) that can provide the basic information, but how do
I translate that into unit test results that Jenkins can understand
and display? Simply emitting XML for xUnit parser seems a bit crude.

Thanks,
Bill

[Anthony Shortland]

Hi Bill, 

Are you aware of Rerun (http://rerun.github.com/rerun) and its ability to formally manage shell script test cases?

Anthony.

Sent from my iPhone

[Matt Benson]

Bill:  You might also consider Antunit [1] for a simple means of generating JUnit-compatible XML.

HTH,
Matt
[1] http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/antunit/index.html

[Benjamin Lau]

I've also used the technique of generating xUnit formatted reports from the shell script and having Jenkins pick those up. Required the xUnit plug-in if I recall.

Ben

[D. Scott]

I spent a lot of time looking for this same thing. Finally, I wrote my own solution.
It's now available on SourceForge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jshu.

D

[JonathanRRogers]

I haven't had a need to do what you're describing yet, but if I did, I'd probably check out the  TAP plugin for Jenkins. TAP is much simpler than xUnit.

<URL:https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/TAP+Plugin>