PowerShell Pester Course Overview
The PowerShell Pester Course Overview by Microsoft equips IT professionals, developers, and testers with essential skills to write effective tests for their PowerShell scripts. Understanding Pester's testing framework is crucial for ensuring code reliability and performance, making this course invaluable for those aiming to enhance their automation and testing capabilities in modern software development.
Course outline & what you'll learn
Overview of PowerShell
- Introduction to Testing in PowerShell
- Importance of Unit Testing
- Installing Pester
- Configuring the PowerShell environment for testing
- Understanding Pester syntax
- Creating and running basic tests
- Mocking dependencies
- Testing asynchronous code
- Using assertions effectively
- Structuring test files
- Grouping tests with Describe and Context
- Test-driven development (TDD) principles
- Writing maintainable and reusable tests
- Integrating Pester with CI/CD pipelines
- Automating test execution
- Common errors and solutions
- Techniques for debugging Pester tests
- Case studies and practical applications of Pester
- Best practices in real-world scenarios
- Summary of key concepts
- Resources for further learning and exploration
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