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 # Bats: Bash Automated Testing System
 
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+## :warning: Not Maintained
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+This git repository is no longer maintained. The [Call for Maintainers](https://github.com/sstephenson/bats/issues/150)
+ resulted in an [Announcement](https://github.com/sstephenson/bats/issues/236)
+ that there was created a mirrored fork of Bats: https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core/ .
+
+  While this repository is not going to be deleted, pull requests and issues may be not handled anymore.
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 Bats is a [TAP](http://testanything.org)-compliant testing framework
 for Bash. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs
 you write behave as expected.