Applies to Pester 3.4.0
Like any Windows PowerShell script, a script that contains Pester tests can include parameters. It’s easy enough to run the script and pass parameters and values in the usual way.
But, when you use Invoke-Pester to…
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Applies to: Pester 3.4.0
In How to Run Pester Tests, I talked about the different places that you can put your Pester days and the different ways to run them, including, but not limited to, the Invoke-Pester function. Today, I’ll…
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Applies to: Pester 3.4.0
When you crack open the Pester module, you find the New-Fixture function, which creates a script and test file pair, and the Invoke-Pester function, which runs Pester tests.
But New-Fixture is not the only way to…
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I have been asked a few times now to use Bash with PrimalScript. It doesn’t have all the setup for it out of the box because there are a few different implementations of Bash available for Windows. If you followed…
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When I started using Git back in 2012, I wasn’t new to source control systems. I used a database-backed source control system back in the 80’s and, at Microsoft, I used Visual Source Safe (VSS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS).…
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There are so many features in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript that I think I can’t live without, like the Format Script button, file groups, and conditional breakpoints.
But, there are few features I’d love to have that aren’t there. They’re…
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Sometimes, I say things so many times that I start to believe them, even when I’m wrong. Here’s a correction of one of the details that I’ve gotten wrong repeatedly.
“You can only use the Properties pane on one object…
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This post demonstrates how to use ‘exclude’ and .gitignore files to exclude files from your GitHub repos, including the backup files that PowerShell Studio creates. Both are text files, but a .gitignore file is part of your repo, so it’s…
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Like almost everyone in the DevOps world, I use GitHub, not because I like it, but because everyone uses it. In fact, I dislike it, because it’s confusing by design. Its misleading language excludes users, rather than welcoming them. To…
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