bash_unit VS sharness

Compare bash_unit vs sharness and see what are their differences.

bash_unit

bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals (by pgrange)
Bash Testing unit-testing Unittest Xunit Assertions test-framework test-driven-development Tdd
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sharness

Shell library to test your tools like Git does (by felipec)
Bash CI Shell test-anything-protocol test-harness Testing
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bash_unit

Posts with mentions or reviews of bash_unit. 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_unit and sharness you can also consider the following projects:

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

bashcov - Code coverage tool for Bash

bash-specs - A BDD testing framework for Bash inspired by Jasmine and roundup.

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

git-pretty-pull-request

babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

Bash-Project-Template - Repository template with Shell/Bash unit testing and pre-commit.

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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