Tests for command line args

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Tests for command line args

Opened this issue 12 years ago · 6 comments

Mause commented 12 years ago

Answer 1 · 2013-05-13T02:53:03.000Z

Is it worth implementing this?
Or should we simply stick with unit tests for the underlying functions?

Answer 2 · 2013-12-23T22:29:25.000Z

It does make some sense to test command line arguments, but how do you test them?

Answer 3 · 2013-12-24T03:37:10.000Z

Shell script, and diff the output?
On Dec 24, 2013 6:29 AM, "Miles Rout" notifications@github.com wrote:

It does make some sense to test command line arguments, but how do you
test them?

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Answer 4 · 2013-12-24T09:00:09.000Z

Some StackOverflow threads:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/353198/best-way-to-test-command-line-tools
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7029875/automating-integration-testing-for-a-command-line-application

Expect could work well.

Answer 5 · 2013-12-24T09:02:43.000Z

I think what I was thinking was, i think the term is integration tests, where you test what the user will actually be interacting with

Answer 6 · 2013-12-24T21:08:21.000Z

i think the best way would just be to do manual testing of the UI before releases, when we have enough of the toolchain done to do releases. Until we do, the interface and output it going to change fast enough that will probably have to re-write the tests each release, and that's more work than just doing manual testing.