BATS (Bash Automated Testing System) for VSCode

This extension adds language support for the Bats (Bash Automated Testing System) testing framework to VS Code.

Features

• Bats language support for VSCode
• Syntax highlighting for core functions
• Syntax highlighting for community modules
• Code Snippets for quick coding for core functions
• Code Snippets for quick coding for community modules

Bats

Bash Automated Testing System (2021) is a community-maintained Bats project.

(c) 2011-2016 Sam Stephenson
(c) 2017-2021 bats-core organization

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected.

A .bats test file is a Bash script with special syntax for defining test cases. Under the hood, each test case is just a function with a description.

See bats-core README for documentation on how to use Bats.

Bats modules

Project	version	code snippets	syntax highlighting
https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert
https://github.com/bats-core/bats-support
https://github.com/bats-core/bats-file
https://github.com/lox/bats-mock

Snippets

These modules have snippets:

• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert
• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-support
• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-file
• https://github.com/lox/bats-mock

Type BATS:*snippet* to use snippets.

• BATS:env : shebang.
• BATS:setup : Setup function.
• BATS:teardown : Teardown function.
• BATS:load : Load common code.
• BATS:bats_load_library : Load system-wide libraries.
• BATS:test : Test case.
• BATS:status : Test status code.
• BATS:output : Test output.
• BATS:line : Test line output.
• BATS:skip : Skip test.

• BATS:assert
• BATS:assert_output
• BATS:assert_line
• BATS:assert_success
• BATS:assert_failure
• BATS:assert_equal
• BATS:assert_not_equal
• BATS:refute
• BATS:refute_output
• BATS:refute_line

Syntax highlighting

These modules have syntax highlighting support:

• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert
• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-support
• https://github.com/bats-core/bats-file
• https://github.com/lox/bats-mock

Color customizations

If you want Bats syntax highlighting to look different to shellscript syntax, you can change your user preferences or workspace settings (.vscode/settings.json).

Default theme, for shellscript:

Example after saving the editor.tokenColorCustomizations settings below.

Add this to your VS Code settings.

{
    "editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
        "textMateRules": [
            {
                "scope": "keyword.control.bats",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#9f1fd1",
                    "fontStyle": "italic"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "support.function.bats",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#d41515",
                    "fontStyle": "italic"
                }
            },
            {
                "scope": "support.variable.bats",
                "settings": {
                    "foreground": "#329432",
                    "fontStyle": "italic"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

Installation

Extension Marketplace

This extension is published in the VSCode marketplace.

1. Run Install Extensions from the Command Palette
2. Search and choose bats.

Release Notes

See Changelog.

Known Issues

Feel free to report any issues.

Related Projects

If you like Bats, you may also like ShellCheck and the VSCode extension

This extension was inspired by sublime-bats.

License

MIT