provashell – testing shell scripts the easy way

In this post I will describe the provashell project, an Apache 2.0 licensed bash and shell Unit Testing library using annotations. The library is a self-contained script file with no dependencies that can be embedded or used easily in your project. Extra care has been taken to use POSIX shell features and the code has been tested in the popular shells bash, dash and zsh (latest versions the time of writing this article). I will add some detail on what drove me to do it, what it does, how it works and some examples. Continue reading “provashell – testing shell scripts the easy way”