The Pester Book (retired)

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The Pester Book (retired)

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Don Jones
Don Jones

Don Jones has been in the IT industry since the mid 1990s, and has been a recipient of Microsoft's "Most Valuable Professional" Award since 2003. He's a co-founder of PowerShell.org and The DevOps Collective, and a Curriculum Director for online video training company Pluralsight. Don authored some of the first books ever published for Windows PowerShell, and is the co-author of Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, the bestselling entry-level book for PowerShell. Don's a sought-after speaker at technology conferences like Microsoft Ignite, TechMentor, and many more. In 2014, Don started writing fiction in the sci-fi and fantasy genres, and had produced several notable novels, including The Never: A Tale of Peter and the Fae, The Achillios Chronicles trilogy (Alabaster, Onyx, and Verdant), and Daniel Scratch: A Story of Witchkind. You can find him on Twitter @concentratedDon, or on his website, DonJones.com. 

Don Jones

Episode 38

An Interview with Don Jones

Adam Bertram
Adam Bertram

Adam Bertram is a 20+ year veteran of IT and an experienced online business professional. He’s a consultant, Microsoft MVP, blogger, trainer, published author and content marketer for multiple technology companies. Catch up on Adam’s articles at adamtheautomator.com, connect on LinkedIn, or follow him on Twitter at @adbertram.

Adam Bertram

Episode 149

An Interview with Adam Bertram

Table of Contents

  •  
    • About This Book
    • About the Author
    • Foreword
    • Feedback
    • Code Samples
    • Introduction
      • Testing as Institutional Memory
      • Testing Drives Better Modularization
      • Tests as Functional Specifications
      • Tests in Automated Build Pipelines
      • Automated Testing!
      • Where We’re Not Going
  • Part 1: Meet Pester
    • Pester Concepts
      • Tests
      • Mocks
      • Assertions
      • Scaffolding
      • TestDrive
    • Designing for Testing
      • Input is Via Parameters
      • Output is Via the Pipeline
      • Actions Aren’t Output
      • Tightly Scoped Commands are Easiest to Test
      • A Word for DSC Resource Authors
    • Describe and Context Blocks
      • A Describe is a Scope
      • A Describe Can be Tagged
      • A Describe Contains…
    • Before and After Blocks
    • It Blocks
      • Examples
      • The Actual Test
    • Should
      • Be and BeExactly
      • BeLessThan, BeGreaterThan
      • Wildcard Comparisons: BeLike, BeLikeExactly; Match, MatchExactly
      • Object Type: BeOfType
      • Errors: Throw
      • Objects Exist: Exist
      • Strings in Files: Contain, ContainExactly
      • Nothing: BeNullOrEmpty
      • BeIn (an Array)
      • Remember: Should is a Command That Can Throw Exceptions
    • Test Cases
      • Creating Tests for Different Parameters
      • Using the TestCases parameter
      • Using the Test Name Token
      • Test Cases Have Many Uses
    • Mocks
      • Mocking Specific Object Types
      • Mock Scope
      • Module-Level Mocks
      • Parameter Filters
      • Verifying Mocks
    • The TESTDRIVE: Drive
      • Referencing Test Drive as a PSDrive
      • Referencing TestDrive as a Variable
  • Part 2: Using Pester
    • Design Practices
      • Testing is a Forever Thing
      • Dealing with Modules and Dot-Sourced Scripts
      • The Input/Execution/Output Pattern
      • Naming Conventions
      • Tagging
    • Adding Tests For a Function
      • Understand the Subject
      • Designing Tests
      • Writing the Test
      • Future Iterations
      • Comparing to Warren’s Tests
      • Wrapping Up
    • Adding Tests - Again
      • The Code
      • Analyzing the Code
      • Refactoring the Code for Testability
      • Limiting Function Input
      • Writing the Tests
      • Wrapping Up
    • Working with Pester Output
    • Infrastructure Validation
      • Infrastructure Validation in Pester
      • Analyzing the Code
      • Getting Testing Dependencies in Place
      • Prototyping the Tests
      • Writing the Infrastructure Tests
      • Dependencies
      • Building Dependency Discovery Code
      • Adding Dependency Checking to Tests
      • Switching it Up
    • Mocking the Unmockable
      • Methods
      • Wrapping Up
    • Cross-Platform Pester
    • Testing GUI Scripts
    • Troubleshooting Tests
  • Part 3: Code Coverage
    • Why Code Coverage?
      • Code Coverage Metrics
      • So… Why Code Coverage?
      • The Test Case Tie-In
    • Using Pester to Measure Code Coverage
      • A Simple Code Coverage Test
      • Getting Granular with Code Coverage
    • Improving Code Coverage
      • Start Here
      • Analyzing Code Coverage
    • A Pester Case Study
      • Background
      • TO BE CONTINUED…..
  • Part 4: Pester Cookbook
    • Recipe: Testing for Live Conditions
      • The Recipe
      • The Background
    • Recipe: Testing Scheduled Tasks
      • The Recipe
      • The Background
    • Recipe: Testing for Installed Software
      • The Recipe
      • The Background
    • Recipe: Ensuring all Functions in a Module Have Tests
      • The Recipe
      • The Background
    • Recipe: Testing Scheduled Tasks
      • The Recipe
      • The Background
    • Recipe: Testing External Applications
      • Testing Exit Codes from EXE Files In Scripts
      • The Background
      • Testing Exit Codes from Standalone EXE files
      • The Background
    • Recipe: Common Tests for Functions and Modules
      • The Recipe
      • The Background
    • Recipe: Testing Script Blocks
      • The Recipe
      • The Background
    • Release Notes

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