Introduction to Shaft

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A tool for simplified, declarative unit testing of shell scripts

We will introduce the reasoning for developing a high-level functional unit testing tool for shell code named Shaft (Shell Advanced Functional Tester) geared towards the GNU Bash shell. We will also provide some key highlights of its advantages and features. The tool was developed at Igalia as part of the testing environment used in some of our projects.

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