Smoke v2.1 is out!

Tuesday 1 October 2019 at 17:00 BST

I’ve just released version 2.1.0 of Smoke, my integration test framework for command-line applications.

The major feature: if your command-line application produces files, you can now test their contents.

The release notes explain all:

Smoke v2.1.0 is out! It’s actually been in the works for months now—I kind of forgot about it.

Notable features:

• you can now compare files to their expected contents with files:
  • works just like stdout and stderr
  • you can compare against inline text or another file
  • use filters too
  • revert directories afterwards to clean up with revert:
  • the files fixture has more examples
• set the working directory with working-directory:
  • check out the different usages in the working-directory fixture
• use a shell command rather than a list of arguments
  • much easier
  • uses sh on Linux/macOS, and cmd on Windows (by default)
  • you can override the shell with shell:
  • check out the shell fixture for more possibilities

UX improvements:

• output comes per test now, not all at once (sorry about breaking that in v2.0)
• nomenclature is consistent between the test files and the output

Bug fixes:

• absolute paths are now properly supported

Please try it out and let me know what you think! You can download the binaries from the release page.