nwertzberger/bock

Bash Mocking Framework

Bock

Bash Mocking Framework

Introduction

Bock is intended to be a mocking and spy framework for bash scripts. This offers a way to test code that may be complex enough to warrant mocking away system calls. E.g. rm, cp, mv, etc.

Usage

$ source /path/to/bock thisCall
$ thisCall
$ verify thisCall
$ echo $?
0
$ resetMocks thisCall
$ verify thisCall
ERROR: Wanted but not invoked. 'thisCall'
$ echo $?
1

Implementation

This uses export -f to override any non-pathed function call. Its spies store function calls in a simple text file to track what calls have been made. A call to "resetMocks" will delete the files, but this test framework currently leaves a ".bock" dropping in any folder it is run inside.

TODO

Right now this library only spies. It needs to start mocking.