Markdown Doctest

markdown-doctest is a command-line utility designed to automatically test code examples embedded within Markdown documentation files. Its primary purpose is to prevent out-of-date or broken code snippets from appearing in project READMEs and other documentation, thereby improving the user experience and reducing embarrassing issues for open-source maintainers. The current stable version is 1.1.0. The project has seen releases relatively consistently in its past, indicating an active maintenance phase, though a specific release cadence is not strictly defined. It differentiates itself by focusing specifically on validating documentation code for executability rather than correctness (unless assertions are explicitly added), integrating seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, and offering flexible configuration for requiring modules, defining globals, and ignoring specific examples or file patterns. It's not a replacement for a comprehensive test suite but rather a complementary tool for documentation integrity.