Awesome TAP

Useful resources for the Test Anything Protocol

TAP is a simple text-based interface between testing modules in a test harness.

The list is very JavaScript focused right now. That’s just because I’m only familiar with TAP stuff in the JS world. Contributions welcome for any language.

Contents

• Reporters
• Producers
• Consumers
• Tools
• Articles
• Tutorials
• Documentation
• Community

Reporters

JavaScript

• tap-dot - Dotted output.
• tap-spec - Mocha-like spec reporter.
• tap-nyan - Nyan cat.
• tap-min - Minimal output.
• tap-difflet - Minimal output with diffing.
• tap-diff - Human-friendly output with diffing.
• tap-simple - Simple output.
• faucet - Human-readable summarizer.
• tap-mocha-reporter - Use any of the Mocha reporters.
• tap-summary - Summarized output.
• tap-pessimist - Only shows failed tests.
• tap-prettify - Nice readable output with diffing.
• tap-colorize - Colorize the output while preserving machine-readability.
• tap-bail - Bail out when the first test fails.
• tap-notify - Notifier for macOS, Linux and Windows.
• tap-json - JSON output.
• ava-tap-json - JSON output with AVA compatibility.
• tap-xunit - xUnit output.
• tap-teamcity - Output for TeamCity.

Producers

Things that produce TAP output.

JavaScript

• AVA - Futuristic test runner ($ ava --tap).
• tap - TAP test framework for Node.js.
• tape - TAP-producing test harness for Node.js and browsers.
• ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript linter ($ eslint --format=tap).
• Mocha - Feature-rich test framework for Node.js and browsers ($ mocha reporter=tap).
• qunit-tap - TAP output for QUnit.
• jasmine-reporters - TAP output for Jasmine.
• karma-tap-reporter - TAP output for Karma.
• mos - Markdown file generator and tester ($ mos test --tap).
• zora - TAP-producing test runner that works with ES2015 without Babel.

Swift

• TAP - A Swift package for the Test Anything Protocol (v13).

Fish

• Fishtape - TAP producer and test harness for fish.

Bash

• bats - Bash Automated Testing System.
• ShellSpec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for POSIX shells.

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Consumers

Things that consume TAP output.

JavaScript

• tap-parser - TAP parser.
• tap-out - TAP parser.
• yamlish - YAML-block parser.

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Tools

JavaScript

• tap-dev-tool - Prettify TAP in the browser console.
• tap-merge - Merge multiple TAP streams.
• smokestack - Run TAP tests in a browser and write the output to stdout.
• chutney - Run TAP tests at Sauce Labs. Lightweight smokestack alternative.

Python

• tappy - Tools for working with TAP.

Articles

• Understand the Test Anything Protocol

Tutorials

• test-anything - Learn to test anything with TAP through an interactive workshop.

Documentation

• Specification
• Wikipedia

Community

• Discuss
• Reddit
• Stack Overflow