bash-specs VS sharness

Compare bash-specs vs sharness and see what are their differences.

bash-specs

A BDD testing framework for Bash inspired by Jasmine and roundup. (by helpermethod)
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bash-specs sharness
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12 374
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0.0 6.5
almost 7 years ago 5 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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bash-specs

Posts with mentions or reviews of bash-specs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.

sharness

Posts with mentions or reviews of sharness. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.
  • Sharness 1.2.0 released
    1 project | /r/bash | 20 Mar 2023
    For more information check the Sharness site.
  • Bash_unit – bash unit testing framework
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2021
    The definition of a unit in the context of this framework doesn't seem to be some internal interface but rather whatever can be expressed externally via the CLI.

    Projects that make use of this kind of testing include git[1], Donenfeld's pass[2], and anything else that uses sharness[3].

    [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/t

    [2]: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/tests

    [3]: https://github.com/chriscool/sharness#projects-using-sharnes...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bash-specs and sharness you can also consider the following projects:

bashcov - Code coverage tool for Bash

shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for bash, ksh, zsh, dash and all POSIX shells

bash_unit - bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals

Install-SqlServer - Powershell script to install MS SQL Server unattended

git-pretty-pull-request

babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts