In general you should only test your core scenarios with System Tests. They usually take a long time to run and may require upfront work regarding infrastructure i.e. “Setup new Web Server Instance”, “Setup new DB instance”. These tests should run scenarios of the script e.g. Test entire use case scenarios end to end.
In large projects you should have more Unit Tests than Integration Tests. An error might be caused by an other system or a logic error in the script. These tests are usually the easiest to implement but are more fragile than unit tests. Ensuring that the tested parts work together which may involve calling services outside of the script itself. Should make up the majority of automated tests in a project. Tests that logic has been implemented according to specs and ensures that the core building blocks are working correctly. When writing automated tests we can separate them into different categories: Category
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When writing automated tests one topic quickly arises and that is how to manage dependencies to the outside world. There are multiple assertions you can use within pester as one can see in the following overview: When we execute the PowerShell test from the PowerShell IDE console pane we get the following result in the PowerShell Window. When a function is in a file called Something.ps1, the corresponding tests should be in the file 1. Note that Pester strongly nudges the developer to go along with a certain naming pattern for files. We could verify the functionality with the following test:įor PowerShell the same function could look like this:Īnd the corresponding test function looks like this:įrom the structure there is a lot in common. Let’s assume we have the following class we would like to test: Let’s get started by having a look at what we want to do in a C# context.įor the C# samples we will be using the framework which follows the xUnit pattern. I’ll leave it up to you to follow up on the difference between Test Driven Development (TDD) and BDD, for a framework it usually shows in a more human friendly description of the tests. Pester follows a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) test-development style.
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Which is the de facto standard PowerShell testing framework and comes with every installation of Windows 10. PowerShell comes with it’s own testing framework called Pester. This is where automated Testing allows to ensure functional correctness without demanding any great user interaction to execute multiple test scenarios. However the more complex a script becomes or is integrated into long running processes the harder it becomes to ensure that the script is still running as intended after changes. When the Script is small or does not invoke any long running services we can do this quite simply by executing the script.
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Whenever writing code that ends up in production it is always a must to ensure that the code runs as expected. Functions are not only a great way to structure code for reuse but also allow to create larger scripts. functions can be implemented with PowerShell. In the previous post we saw how methods i.e. You can then use this as part of a pipeline to have the pipeline fail if there are failed tests: If ($TestResults.PowerShell for the C# developer – Part 4 Testing My $TestResults variable then has a FailedCount property with the number of tests that failed.
For example: $TestResults = Invoke-Pester -PassThru You can get the number of failed tests by using the -PassThru switch on Invoke-Pester.
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