bats software package provides bash automated testing system, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bats
bats is installed in your system.
Make ensure the bats package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bats *
You will get with bats package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Shells |
| Package | bats |
| Version | 0.4.0-1ubuntu4 |
| Description | bash automated testing system |
| Sub Section | Shells |