Using Travis CI for testing on UNIX shell scripts

Question

Background:

I have been using Travis CI for my PHP projects and I really like how they give you a link to a picture that shows the status of the current build of your project.

I am currently making a lot of tools using UNIX shell scripting and would like to use Travis CI to test my UNIX scripts.

I have searched the internet trying to find out how to achieve this. I went to the main website, searched Stackoverflow as well as did a bit of Google searching.

It seems like this isn't possible.

I currently use shunit2 to test my shell scripts and functions.

My question(s) is/are:

1. Is it possible to use Travis CI to test shell scripts?
2. If not are there any alternatives that I could use that plug into GitHub?
3. What is the best way to perform integration testing on shell scripts?

Answer 1

Absolutely.

I made a simple test here: https://travis-ci.org/soulseekah/test-shunit2-travis

My .travis.yml file is:

language: bash  before_script:     - curl -L "https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/shunit2/shunit2-2.1.6.tgz" | tar zx  script:     - bash equality_test.sh 

Repository: https://github.com/soulseekah/test-shunit2-travis

Answer 2

I rolled everything into a Makefile and then call make test...

language: bash script: make test 

I'm using assert.sh, so there was no need for the before_script. You can check it out at https://github.com/wmluke/dokku-domains-plugin.