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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition)

You're reading from   Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) One-stop guide to automating administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126305
Length 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with PowerShell 3. Modules and Snap-Ins 4. Working with Objects in PowerShell 5. Operators 6. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 7. Branching and Looping 8. Working with .NET 9. Data Parsing and Manipulation 10. Regular Expressions 11. Files, Folders, and the Registry 12. Windows Management Instrumentation 13. HTML, XML, and JSON 14. Working with REST and SOAP 15. Remoting and Remote Management 16. Testing 17. Error Handling

Testing with Pester

The PowerShell module Pester can be used to build unit tests for scripts and functions. Unit tests target the smallest possible unit of code, which, in PowerShell, is likely to be a function or a method in a PowerShell class.

Pester tests are saved in a file named ending with .tests.ps1 and executed using the command Invoke-Pester.Invoke-Pester finds files named *.tests.ps1 under a given path and executes all tests in each.

Describe and Should statements may also be entered in the console when exploring syntax, but this is not the normal method of defining and running tests.

While Pester is included with Windows 10, it is not the latest version. The latest version may be installed from the PSGallery:

Install-Module Pester -Force 

Why write tests?

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