Initial action to run CLI tests with Bats #7

	name: "Bats CLI tests"

	on:
	push:
	branches: [ "master" ]
	pull_request:
	branches: [ "master" ]
	# allow manual triggering of the workflow in the github UI
	workflow_dispatch:

	jobs:
	analyze:
	name: CLI tests
	runs-on: 'ubuntu-24.04'
	permissions:
	# required for all workflows
	security-events: write

	# required to fetch internal or private CodeQL packs
	packages: read

	# only required for workflows in private repositories
	actions: read
	contents: read

	strategy:
	fail-fast: false
	matrix:
	cmake_preset: ["debug", "release"]

	steps:
	- name: Install additional OS package dependencies to build hpc-workspace
	run: \|
	sudo apt install \
	libboost-system-dev \
	libboost-program-options-dev \
	libcap-dev

	- name: Install Bats and its support libraries for testing
	# for the moment continue if we fail installing the support libraries bats-assert and bats-file
	continue-on-error: true
	run: \|
	sudo apt update
	sudo apt install \
	bats \
	bats-assert \
	bats-file

	- name: Checkout repository
	uses: actions/checkout@v4

	- name: Fetch external sources
	run: \|
	cd external
	./get_externals.sh

	- name: Configure and build code
	run: \|
	cmake --preset ${{ matrix.cmake_preset }}
	cmake --build --preset ${{ matrix.cmake_preset }}

	- name: Run bats non-sudo tests
	run: \|
	bats --filter-tags \!sudo bats/test/ > bats-results-user.log 2&1

	- name: Run bats sudo tests
	run: \|
	sudo bats --filter-tags sudo bats/test/ > bats-results-sudo.log 2&1

	- name: Upload full loc as a Build Artifact
	uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
	with:
	name: bats-results
	path: bats-results-*.log
	retention-days: 1

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