Adding new tests

Adding new tests

How test.sh works

A test file consists of multiple tests that relate to one part of the shell (e.g cd, pipe, redir...), they are basically shell scripts consisting of a list of commands.

Each test file is ran like so when you run test.sh: ./42sh test_file.test.

The output of ./42sh test_file.test is then compared with:

• the output of bash test_file.test if the test file is in tests/bash_tests/
• a predetermined output file test_name.right that you need to modify or create manually if the test file is in tests/fixed_tests/

The basic format for a test is as follows:

echo "command ran in the test or a description if the command is too long"
one or multiple commands
echo "~~~"

~~~ is used as a separator to split the output into multiple files in order to diff on each individual test.