Episode 319 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVPs Don Jones and Adam Bertram on Pester
In This Episode
Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, MVPs Don Jones and Adam Bertram on Pester
Slack Chatroom
Interview
Chatroom Highlights
Adam, what sort of pipeline do you use for your deploys? Is it strictly code or handles the entire infrastructure stack?
don’t forget to ## in front of questions
Is Pester scheduled? As in scheduled task or user driven?
when using it to test infrastructure, could I use it to ensure that the deployment team deployed their IIS web app properly as well as the DB is connecting and such? Or am I just looking at the wrong tool?
could you expand on what mocking is and why I’d wanna do it?
Don: any big plans for the IT Ops news & talk podcast? I see the first episode launched a few weeks back.
mocking is similar to simulating?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZuU3aKlWKM
http://powerscripting.droppages.com/live.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZuU3aKlWKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZzkD7dxNk
hey Vern, try this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZzkD7dxNk
@jason-helmick, are you watching a recording from earlier? live link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZzkD7dxNk
https://donjones.com/2016/11/29/the-pester-book-with-adbertram/
https://leanpub.com/the-dsc-book
https://leanpub.com/the-pester-book
https://leanpub.com/the-pester-book
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024132.do
https://github.com/PowerShell/Operation-Validation-Framework
Now you need the DSC book too!! https://leanpub.com/the-dsc-book
And BTW didn’t realize @majst32 was here but she’s my new co-author on http://leanpub.com/the-dsc-book
- grab it!
Are pester and InSpec ( http://inspec.io /) mutually exclusive?
@cjschroeder: RE testing new DC’s. https://pshirwin.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/active-directory-operations-test/
https://github.com/VernAnderson/PowerShell/blob/master/Get-DomainRole.ps1
«@YFMP415|ipmo» ipmo uploaded a file: Pasted image at 2017-01-04, 8:29 PM https://powershell.slack.com/files/ipmo/F3N7A0X3Q/pasted_image_at_2017_01_04_08_29_pm.png
https://github.com/Ticketmaster/poshspec ??
hehe my favorite bit on mocking: https://twitter.com/dave1010/status/613601365529657344?lang=en
https://www.pluralsight.com/resource-center/podcast/it-ops-podcast
@donj have you checked out https://www.patreon.com/ for ongoing contributions?
for more on mocking I would recommend reading http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/powershell-testing-pester
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/test/powershell
«@UNWNE|stephenowen» stephenowen uploaded a file: Adam EO https://powershell.slack.com/files/stephenowen/F3LS828AV/pasted_image_at_2017_01_04_10_41_pm.png
https://powershell.org/summit/
Question
Superhero - Adam - Captain Eo, The Flash
Don - Favorite vacation spots - Disney, Hawaii, Aruba