The Pester Book (retired)

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This book has been retired, and Adam is now working on it on his own. You can find the “replacement” book at https://leanpub.com/pesterbook, and Adam can be contacted there (on the “Email the Author” section) or on Twitter @adbertram.

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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. You can find him on Twitter @concentratedDon, or on his website, DonJones.com.

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.

- 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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