Articles and other resources

List of resources

Articles

Pester general

(Sort order - date of publication)

No.	Title	Author	Date
0	Get started with Pester (PowerShell unit testing framework)	Jakub Jares	2014-03-12
1	Configure and test windows infrastructure using Powershell technologies DSC and Pester running from Chef and Test-Kitchen	Matt Wrock	2014-10-13
2	Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Getting Started	Michael Sorens	2014-11-03
3	Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Mock Objects	Michael Sorens	2014-11-04
4	Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Checking program flow	Michael Sorens	2014-11-05
5	Create your first Pester script to test a DSC resource	Fabien Dibot	2014-11-30
6	Build your Azure lab with DSC and validate it using Pester – 1/3	Fabien Dibot	2014-12-27
7	Build your Azure lab with DSC and validate it using Pester – 2/3	Fabien Dibot	2015-01-04
8	Comparing Objects using JSON in PowerShell for Pester Tests	Daniel Scott-Raynsford	2015-08-23
9	Testing Script Modules with Pester - series	Dave Wyatt	2015-12-14
10	Download Free Pester Cheat Sheet	Kaj Bonfils	2016-05-18
11	Mocking SQL Results in Pester	Nick Hudacin	2016-04-28
12	PowerShell Pester assertions – Testing with the should command	Adam Bertram	2016-05-24
13	PowerShell – Pester and Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer	Ben Taylor	2016-05-27
14	Writing #Pester based Unit Tests for #PowerShell Remoting	Nicholas Dille	2016-05-30
15	Help = Spec = Test	James O'Neill	2016-05-31
16	A different pitch for Pester	James O'Neill	2016-06-01
17	Active Directory ReportUnit Pester results	Irwin Strachan	2016-06-10
18	Testing Active Directory with Pester and Powershell	Mark Wragg	2016-06-13
19	How to Run a Pester Test	June Blender	2016-06-13
20	Invoke-Pester: Running Selected Tests	June Blender	2016-06-15
21	How to Pass Parameters to a Pester Test Script	June Blender	2016-06-17
22	Testing Pester Code Coverage	June Blender	2016-06-24
23	Visualizing Operational Tests with Jenkins and Pester	Bill Hurt	2016-06-25
24	Constructing Private Test Credentials for Pester Testing	Chris Wahl	2016-04-27
25	Remediating vSphere Configuration Drift with PowerShell Pester Tests	Chris Wahl	2016-06-17
26	The Pester Pipeline	Christopher Hunt	2016-06-21
27	Using Visual Studio Code to develop VSTS Build Tasks with PowerShell and Pester tests	Richard Fennell	2016-06-27
28	Pester, Jenkins, Remote & ExitCode	Fabien Dibot	2016-07-02
29	Unit tests versus integration tests in Pester	Adam Bertram	2016-07-21
30	Functional / Non-Functional Pester Tests and why I think you really should have a form of both.	Ryan Yates	2016-07-21
31	Writing Pester Tests	PowerShell Community	2016-11-07

Test your module with Pester

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No.	Title	Author	Date
1	Testing Script Modules with Pester	Dave Wyatt	2015-12-17
2	An Easier Way to Control Pester Tests	Adam Bertram	2016-03-24
3	Invoking PSScriptAnalyzer in Pester Tests for each Rule	Ryan Yates	2016-03-29
4	Building a Simple Release Pipeline in PowerShell Using psake, Pester, and PSDeploy	Brandon Olin	2016-04-06
5	Write Dynamic Unit Tests for your PowerShell Code with Pester	Mike F Robbins	2016-04-14
6	Using Pester to test your Comment Based Help	Francois-Xavier Cat	2016-05-10
7	Using Pester to test your Manifest File	Francois-Xavier Cat	2016-05-11
8	Generic Pester Tests	Nicholas M. Getchell	2016-06-16
9	Testing Your Module Manifest With Pester - Revisited	Matt McNabb	2016-05-18
10	How To Test PowerShell Modules with Pester	Adam Bertram	2016-05-19
11	Creating a set of simple Pester Tests for existing or old PowerShell Modules & making them easier to update in future.	Ryan Yates	2016-05-24
12	A Boilerplate for Unit testing DSC resources with Pester	Mathieu Buisson	2016-07-12

Videos

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No.	Title	Author	Date
1	Pester in Action - series	Kevin Marquett	2015-11-11
2	Automate your PowerShell tests with Appveyor, Git and Pester!	Flynn Bundy	2016-04-03
3	Test-Driven Development with Pester	June Blender	2016-05-21
4	Testing PowerShell with Pester	Robert Cain	2016-06-18
5	Pester the Tester PowerShell Bugs Beware	Robert Cain	2016-06-14

Projects

(Sort order - name of project)

No.	Name	Author
3	Format-Pester	Erwan Quelin
1	PesterHelpers	Ryan Yates
4	Pester-ExchangeServer	Wojciech Sciesinski
2	PesterOperationTest	Tore Groneng
5	PoshSpec	Chris Hunt
6	PowerShell Pester Dashboard Kickstarter	Josh Castillo
7	PesterMatchArray	Stuart Leeks
9	PesterMatchHashtable	Stuart Leeks
8	Remotely	Ravikanth Chaganti
10	Vester	Chris Wahl
11	Watchmen	Brandon Olin

Integrations

(Sort order - ?)

No.	Name	Author	Date
1	VSCode snippets for Pester	Adam Bertram	2017-03-07

TBD

Waiting to be re-read and added

• http://mikefrobbins.com/?s=pester
• https://powershell.org