This is a proof of concept how we could test exercises in the academy:

• Exercises target real world websites, so they can easily break without us knowing
• We could test them e.g. weekly, so it's not too noisy
• The solution should be as simple as possible, and capable running both JavaScript and Python
• While working on the PoC I actually discovered one exercise which is broken 95% of time due to aggressive anti-scraping protections, so I changed it
• The test can be executed with bats -r --print-output-on-failure .
• Bats is a simple testing framework based on Bash, which allows to run arbitrary programs and evaluate their output - https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core Not sure yet how to get it inside the CI, but on macOS it's just brew install bats

Todo:

• Implement JS exercise as well
• Discuss with the team whether we want this