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Installation Guide

SpecTest is distributed as a single, self-contained binary for Linux, macOS, and Windows with zero external runtime dependencies.

Prebuilt Binaries (GitHub Releases)

Download pre-compiled binaries from the official SpecTest GitHub Releases page.

curl -sSL https://github.com/nguyentin05/spectest/releases/latest/download/spectest_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar -xz
sudo mv spectest /usr/local/bin/
spectest --version

curl -sSL https://github.com/nguyentin05/spectest/releases/latest/download/spectest_linux_arm64.tar.gz | tar -xz
sudo mv spectest /usr/local/bin/
spectest --version

curl -sSL https://github.com/nguyentin05/spectest/releases/latest/download/spectest_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar -xz
sudo mv spectest /usr/local/bin/
spectest --version

curl -sSL https://github.com/nguyentin05/spectest/releases/latest/download/spectest_darwin_amd64.tar.gz | tar -xz
sudo mv spectest /usr/local/bin/
spectest --version

Download spectest_windows_amd64.zip from Releases, extract spectest.exe, and add its folder to your system PATH.

Go Toolchain

If you have Go (version 1.22 or newer) installed:

go install github.com/nguyentin05/spectest/cmd/spectest@latest

Ensure $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin is in your environment's PATH:

spectest --version

Building from Source

To build directly from Git:

git clone https://github.com/nguyentin05/spectest.git
cd spectest

# Compile binary to ./bin/spectest
make build

# Run tests
make test

Shell Autocompletion

Generate autocompletion scripts for your shell:

spectest completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/spectest

spectest completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_spectest"

spectest completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/spectest.fish

spectest completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression