Articles and other resources

Articles

Pester general

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Title	Author	Date
Pester - PowerShell BDD Style Testing for the System Administrator	Scott Muc	2011-03-11
PowerShell BDD Testing - Pester Screencast	Scott Muc	2011-08-25
Get started with Pester (PowerShell unit testing framework)	Jakub Jares	2014-03-12
Testing your PowerShell scripts with Pester: Assertions and more	Jakub Jares	2014-03-27
Growing an Open Source Project: The Pester Story	Scott Muc	2014-08-07
Pester Mock and TestDrive	Jakub Jares	2014-09-30
Configure and test windows infrastructure using Powershell technologies DSC and Pester running from Chef and Test-Kitchen	Matt Wrock	2014-10-13
Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Getting Started	Michael Sorens	2014-11-03
Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Mock Objects	Michael Sorens	2014-11-04
Practical PowerShell Unit-Testing: Checking program flow	Michael Sorens	2014-11-05
Create your first Pester script to test a DSC resource	Fabien Dibot	2014-11-30
Build your Azure lab with DSC and validate it using Pester – 1/3	Fabien Dibot	2014-12-27
Build your Azure lab with DSC and validate it using Pester – 2/3	Fabien Dibot	2015-01-04
Boost your productivity with Pester snippets	Jakub Jares	2015-01-13
Pester: Triangulation and reusing test cases	Jakub Jares	2015-06-04
Comparing Objects using JSON in PowerShell for Pester Tests	Daniel Scott-Raynsford	2015-08-23
Pester Explained: Introduction and Assertions	Jakub Jares	2015-12-01
Pester Explained: Should	Jakub Jares	2015-12-02
Pester Explained: Describe, Context, and It Blocks	Jakub Jares	2015-12-03
Testing Script Modules with Pester - series	Dave Wyatt	2015-12-14
Download Free Pester Cheat Sheet	Kaj Bonfils	2016-05-18
Mocking SQL Results in Pester	Nick Hudacin	2016-04-28
PowerShell Pester assertions – Testing with the should command	Adam Bertram	2016-05-24
PowerShell – Pester and Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer	Ben Taylor	2016-05-27
Writing #Pester based Unit Tests for #PowerShell Remoting	Nicholas Dille	2016-05-30
Help = Spec = Test	James O'Neill	2016-05-31
A different pitch for Pester	James O'Neill	2016-06-01
Active Directory ReportUnit Pester results	Irwin Strachan	2016-06-10
Testing Active Directory with Pester and Powershell	Mark Wragg	2016-06-13
How to Run a Pester Test	June Blender	2016-06-13
Invoke-Pester: Running Selected Tests	June Blender	2016-06-15
How to Pass Parameters to a Pester Test Script	June Blender	2016-06-17
Testing Pester Code Coverage	June Blender	2016-06-24
Visualizing Operational Tests with Jenkins and Pester	Bill Hurt	2016-06-25
Constructing Private Test Credentials for Pester Testing	Chris Wahl	2016-04-27
Remediating vSphere Configuration Drift with PowerShell Pester Tests	Chris Wahl	2016-06-17
The Pester Pipeline	Christopher Hunt	2016-06-21
Using Visual Studio Code to develop VSTS Build Tasks with PowerShell and Pester tests	Richard Fennell	2016-06-27
Pester, Jenkins, Remote & ExitCode	Fabien Dibot	2016-07-02
Unit tests versus integration tests in Pester	Adam Bertram	2016-07-21
Functional / Non-Functional Pester Tests and why I think you really should have a form of both.	Ryan Yates	2016-07-21
Writing Pester Tests	PowerShell Community	2016-11-07
Unit Testing with Pester : Storing complex Mock objects in a JSON file	Mathieu Buisson	2017-02-14
Mocking New-Object in Pester with PowerShell classes	Ben Taylor	2017-01-10
Writing Dynamic and Random Tests Cases for Pester	Rob Sewell	2017-07-06
Getting Started with Pester	Josh Duffney	2017-08-23
Writing and Using Custom Assertions for Pester Tests	Mathieu Buisson	2017-10-31
Building An Infrastructure Pipeline Part 2 - Testing	Sam Cogan	2017-11-27
2 Ways to Loop through collections in Pester	Rob Sewell	2017-11-28
Handling Missing Instances when Looping with Pester	Rob Sewell	2017-11-30
Azure Security Audits With Pester	Sam Cogan	2017-12-20
Adding a code coverage badge to a PowerShell project	Mark Wragg	2018-05-14

Test your module with Pester

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Title	Author	Date
Testing Script Modules with Pester	Dave Wyatt	2015-12-17
An Easier Way to Control Pester Tests	Adam Bertram	2016-03-24
Invoking PSScriptAnalyzer in Pester Tests for each Rule	Ryan Yates	2016-03-29
Building a Simple Release Pipeline in PowerShell Using psake, Pester, and PSDeploy	Brandon Olin	2016-04-06
Write Dynamic Unit Tests for your PowerShell Code with Pester	Mike F Robbins	2016-04-14
Using Pester to test your Comment Based Help	Francois-Xavier Cat	2016-05-10
Using Pester to test your Manifest File	Francois-Xavier Cat	2016-05-11
Generic Pester Tests	Nicholas M. Getchell	2016-06-16
Testing Your Module Manifest With Pester - Revisited	Matt McNabb	2016-05-18
How To Test PowerShell Modules with Pester	Adam Bertram	2016-05-19
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
A Boilerplate for Unit testing DSC resources with Pester	Mathieu Buisson	2016-07-12

Videos

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Title	Author	Date
Pester in Action - series	Kevin Marquett	2015-11-11
Automate your PowerShell tests with Appveyor, Git and Pester!	Flynn Bundy	2016-04-03
Test-Driven Development with Pester	June Blender	2016-05-21
Testing PowerShell with Pester	Robert Cain	2016-06-18
Pester the Tester PowerShell Bugs Beware	Robert Cain	2016-06-14
Introduction to testing with Pester	Jakub Jares	2017-04-08
Mastering PowerShell testing with Pester	Mark Wragg	2018-10-10

Courses

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Name	Author
Testing PowerShell with Pester	Ashley McGlone, Adam Bertram
PSKoans - A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester unit testing.	Joel Sallow and a Community

Projects

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Name	Author
Assert	Jakub Jares
Format-Pester	Erwan Quelin
Pester Test Runner Build Task for VSTS	Richard Fennell
PesterHelpers	Ryan Yates
PowerShellGuard	Steven Murawski
PesterOperationTest	Tore Groneng
PestWatch	Ed Elliott
PoshSpec	Chris Hunt
PowerShell Pester Dashboard Kickstarter	Josh Castillo
PesterMatchArray	Stuart Leeks
PesterMatchHashtable	Stuart Leeks
Remotely	Ravikanth Chaganti
Vester	Chris Wahl
Watchmen	Brandon Olin

Integrations

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Name	Author	Date
VSCode snippets for Pester	Adam Bertram	2017-03-07

Paid resources

Books

Title	Author	Date
The Pester Book	Adam Bertram	2017-08-01

TBD

Waiting to be re-read and added

• mikefrobbins.com
• powershell.org