Bats Operations

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Script to Run all .bats Tests from a Directory

#!/usr/bin/env bash

for i in $(dirname $0)/*.bats; do
    echo "running $(basename ${i}) tests ..."
    bats $i
done

Loading a Library to be Tested into a .bats Test

Assuming that the library you want to test is called 'blue.shlib', create a 'blue-library.bash' file in the directory that contain the .bats tests. If the library is located at a fixed relative location to the .bats test files, use this arrangement:

source ${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/[...]/blue.shlib

Otherwise, you can use an absolute path, but that is more fragile.

From each .bats test that wants to test functionality from that library:

load blue-library