How does Terratest compare to shell scripts?

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Comparing Terratest to shell scripts in DevOps for infrastructure automation and testing, focusing on ease of use and maintainability.
// Example of a Terratest Go test for AWS infrastructure package test import ( "testing" "github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest/modules/terraform" "github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest/modules/aws" ) func TestTerraformAWSExample(t *testing.T) { // Configure Terraform options terraformOptions := &terraform.Options{ TerraformDir: "../examples/terraform-aws-example", } // Clean up resources at the end of the test defer terraform.Destroy(t, terraformOptions) // This will run init and apply terraform.InitAndApply(t, terraformOptions) // Validate your code works as expected result := aws.GetInstancePublicIp(t, "i-0123456789abcdef0") if result == "" { t.Fatalf("Failed to get public IP from the instance") } }

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