sstephenson/bats
Bash Automated Testing System observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5362
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2532
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
7101 stars · 507 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash scripts and UNIX programs, where test cases are Bash functions with special @test syntax. It runs tests in isolation and outputs human-readable or machine-parsable TAP results suitable for CI systems.
Use cases
- test bash scripts
- write unit tests for shell scripts
- verify unix programs behave as expected
- run shell tests in continuous integration
- assert command exit status and output
- tap-compliant test output for ci pipelines
When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose testing framework for non-shell languages
- you need advanced features like parallel test execution or mocking found in newer forks like bats-core
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
testing cli testing developer-tools cli bash tap shell-scripting unit-testing ci command-line linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/sstephenson/bats · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5e73c3c62a99
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sstephenson/bats | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="sstephenson/bats")
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