TAP - Protocol

TAP, aka Test Anything Protocol, is an open source protocol created in 1988.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/TestAnything/test-anything-protocol

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The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a protocol to allow communication between unit tests and a test harness. It allows individual tests (TAP producers) to communicate test results to the testing harness in a language-agnostic way. Originally developed for unit testing of the Perl interpreter in 1987, producers and parsers are now available for many development platforms.. Read more on Wikipedia...

TAP website
TAP Wikipedia page
TAP is developed on GitHub and has 37 stars
file extensions for TAP include tap
There are 81 members in the TAP subreddit
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for TAP
testanything.org was registered in 2007
See also: (1 related languages)Perl

Example from Wikipedia:

1..4
ok 1 - Input file opened
not ok 2 - First line of the input valid.
    More output from test 2. There can be
    arbitrary number of lines for any output
    so long as there is at least some kind
    of whitespace at beginning of line.
ok 3 - Read the rest of the file
#TAP meta information
not ok 4 - Summarized correctly # TODO: not written yet