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Testscript

Script-based testing based on txtar files (now/here a toplevel module)

• Provides a shell-like test environment that is very nicely tuned for testing Go CLI commands.
• Extracted version of the core Go team's internal testscript package.
• Heavily used to test the go command.
• Includes patterns for checking stderr/stdout, command pass/fail assertions, and so on.
• Built-in support for Go concepts like build tags.
• Integrates well with go test, including coverage support.
• Inputs and sample outputs are in the txtar text archive format, also used by the Go playground.
• Accompanied by a testcript command for running standalone scripts with files embedded in txtar format.

A great introduction to using testscripts is this blog post series.

Also included are the following:

• imports: list of known architectures and OSs, and support for reading import statements.
• par: do work in parallel.
• testenv: information on the current testing environment.
• testscript:

This is a fork/hacked up version of https://github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal as a toplevel testscript/ minimal module - keeping up with upstream with a few minor changes (like allowing "!foo" to work instead of requiring "! foo", a lot fewer dependencies/code outside of standard package (so no unquote for instance), etc)

Links

• Test scripts in Go