kitchen-tmux

The more I work with test-kitchen, the more I have wanted a different workflow. Essentially, I really liked the idea of concurrency, but I struggled to parse the output. As a result, I found myself opening a number of windows in tmux and running kitchen test .

This idea combined with some Saturday night hacking has resulted in kitchen-tmux. Instead of going through each OS, I create a new session and then a window in tmux for each of the instances in test-kitchen. From there each window kicks off kitchen test for that instance. I haven’t used it as part of my workflow yet, but playing with it a bit, this seems like it is going to be a huge win.

You can find the code on GitHub or below:

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#!/bin/bash

SESSION=${PWD##*/}
PWD=$(pwd)
tmp=$TMUX

unset TMUX

tmux -2 new-session -d -s $SESSION

for x in $(kitchen list -b); do
  tmux new-window -t $SESSION -n "$x"
  tmux send-keys -t $SESSION  "kitchen test $x
"
done

tmux select-window -t $SESSION:1

export TMUX=$tmp
tmux switch-client -t $SESSION