make shell test work universally (hopefully) #585
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Description
What's the goal of this PR?
make the tests for shells work universally. they were failing on some Ubuntu-based distros at the least.
What changes did you make?
The original test just made sure the result of
newShellExecutor()
matched an object hardcoded inTest_newShellExecutor()
.Now we independently test the attributes of the resulting object against what we want from the test, using a regex to test
got.Executable
and EqualValues forgot.Args
, respectively.What alternative solution should we consider, if any?
We talked about supporting a list of possible places to expect
echo
on a distribution, but what if the system configuration is valid and functional, but we didn't include support? Ultimately we decided to go with a regex so we likely won't have to look at this again for a long, long time.