live-testing

Scripts to ease TDD : watch for files changes and run tests.

Bash version

Usage

Put live-testing.sh at the root of your project, and then edit file to specify how to run unit tests.

At least, you have to edit the runTests() function by adding a command to run unit tests on our project.

runTests() {
  # TODO >>> RUN YOUR TESTS HERE
}

You can also configure the main part, by changing the watched folder or the timer.

### Main

folder='.'
everySeconds='2'

watch $folder $everySeconds

Possible improvements

• Watching for file date changes and sleeping with the same amount of time can lead to some misses.
• Debounce / Throttle execution of tests if there are changes.
• Add a configuration file or parsing arguments for timer, watched folder, unit test command.