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# packaging tests
# Packaging tests
This project contains tests that verify the distributions we build work
correctly on the operating systems we support. They're intended to cover the
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distribution. They're not intended to have significant coverage of the behavior
of Elasticsearch's features.
There are two types of tests in this project. The old tests live in
`src/test/` and are written in [Bats](https://github.com/sstephenson/bats),
which is a flavor of bash scripts that run as unit tests. These tests are
deprecated because Bats is unmaintained and cannot run on Windows.
The new tests live in `src/main/` and are written in Java. Like the old tests,
this project's tests are run inside the VM, not on your host. All new packaging
tests should be added to this set of tests if possible.
## Running these tests
See the section in [TESTING.asciidoc](../../TESTING.asciidoc#testing-packaging)
These tests should only be run on ephemeral machines. They will likely
have undesired side effects on a developer's computer.
For more information, see the section in [TESTING.asciidoc](../../TESTING.asciidoc#testing-packaging)
## Adding a new test class