TALC

TALC is a simple CLI testing tool. It uses corresponding .in and .out files and checks if ./tool < file.in produces the output in file.out. It exits after the first failure.

Use

Include this repo or talc.sh in your code base and call to it as follows

./talc.sh <command or script> <directory with tests>

Output

Passing inputs output a 🔵, failing inputs a 🔴 and a diff of the expected input to the actual output

Example

All passing

./talc.sh echo.sh ./tests
🔵🔵🔵

Last one failing

./talc.sh echo.sh ./tests
🔵🔵🔴
Failure in file: ./tests/3.in
1c1
< Some other data
---
> Some other dat

First one failing (exits early)

./talc.sh echo.sh ./tests
🔴
Failure in file: ./tests/1.in
1c1
< Some test Data
---
> Som test Data