Episode 319 - PowerScripting Podcast - MVPs Don Jones and Adam Bertram on Pester

PowerScripting Podcast

MVPs Don Jones and Adam Bertram on Pester

Slack Chatroom

• We are the live-podcast channel

Interview

• https://donjones.com/2016/11/29/the-pester-book-with-adbertram/
• https://leanpub.com/the-pester-book
• https://leanpub.com/the-dsc-book

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

http://youtu.be/3ZuU3aKlWKM?a

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

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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://youtu.be/Co_Ph6zvPNY

http://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/660fbaf9-f025-4e41-a34e-a6aa016b6015/282e06e5-a16e-49d8-b536-a6c0012febd1/f72b4cba-1f25-4e89-b21f-a6de0174cac9/podcast.rss

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/powershell-testing-pester

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/test/powershell

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http://powershellsummit.org

https://powershell.org/summit/

Question

• Superhero - Adam - Captain Eo, The Flash
• Don - Favorite vacation spots - Disney, Hawaii, Aruba