# test-kitchen/test-kitchen

Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms

Repository: https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/test-kitchen
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: hacktoberfest, managed-by-terraform, ruby-gem, test-kitchen, testing, ruby
Last push: 2026-08-25T13:09:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5243, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 10, "gap_med": 26, "n_releases_24m": 12}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1892, forks 576 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:50.531084+00:00)

## What it is
Test Kitchen is a Ruby-based CLI tool for integration testing infrastructure code and configuration management (e.g., Chef cookbooks) on isolated target platforms. It drives test instances defined in a kitchen.yml across provisioners and platforms like Vagrant, Docker, and cloud providers.

## Use cases
- test chef cookbooks on multiple platforms
- run integration tests for infrastructure code
- verify infrastructure code on isolated VMs
- test configuration management across OS versions
- spin up and destroy test instances from the CLI
- develop infrastructure code with fast local test loops

## When to choose
- you write Chef cookbooks or other infrastructure code and need multi-platform integration testing
- you want isolated, reproducible test instances driven from a simple YAML config
- you need a plugin ecosystem of drivers, provisioners, and verifiers for infrastructure testing

## When to avoid
- you only need unit tests for application code without infrastructure targets
- you are not working in a Ruby-based infrastructure ecosystem
- you need lightweight container-only testing where a simpler runner suffices

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: testing, e2e-testing, configuration-management, cli, developer-tools
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, testing, developer-tools
- platform: ruby, cli, cross-platform
- tags: test-kitchen, infrastructure-testing, chef, vagrant, integration-testing, ruby-gem, devops, automation

## Member repositories
- test-kitchen/test-kitchen (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.531084+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:12:58.698291+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.531084+00:00, sha 93c42c69291b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.