Question

We have a project that contains a library of Python and Scala packages, as well as Bourne, Python and Perl executable scripts. Although the library has good test coverage, we don’t have any tests on the scripts.

The current testing environment uses Jenkins, Python, virtualenv, nose, Scala, and sbt.

Is there a standard/common way to incorporate testing of scripts in Jenkins?

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Edit: I’m hoping for something simple like Python’s unittest for shell scripts, like this:

assertEquals expected.txt commandline
assertError commandline --bogus
assertStatus 11 commandline baddata.in

Answer 1

Have you looked at shunit2: https://github.com/kward/shunit2

It allows you to write testable shell scripts in Bourne, bash or ksh scripts.

Not sure how you can integrate it into what you’re describing, but it generates output similar to other unit test suites.