Applies to Pester 3.4.0 Like any Windows PowerShell script, a script that contains Pester tests can include parameters. It’s easy enough to run the script and pass parameters and values in the usual way. But, when you use Invoke-Pester to run the script, you need to pass the parameters in a hash table. This blog […]
Invoke-Pester: Running Selected Tests
Applies to: Pester 3.4.0 In How to Run Pester Tests, I talked about the different places that you can put your Pester days and the different ways to run them, including, but not limited to, the Invoke-Pester function. Today, I’ll talk about the parameters of Invoke-Pester function that let you determine which tests run. Next, […]
How to Run a Pester Test
Applies to: Pester 3.4.0 When you crack open the Pester module, you find the New-Fixture function, which creates a script and test file pair, and the Invoke-Pester function, which runs Pester tests. But New-Fixture is not the only way to create a Pester test and Invoke-Pester is not the only way to run a test. […]
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Using Bash with PrimalScript 2016
I have been asked a few times now to use Bash with PrimalScript. It doesn’t have all the setup for it out of the box because there are a few different implementations of Bash available for Windows. If you followed the latest news, Microsoft has announced at the BUILD 2016 keynote that Bash will become […]
How Git branches affect files on disk
When I started using Git back in 2012, I wasn’t new to source control systems. I used a database-backed source control system back in the 80’s and, at Microsoft, I used Visual Source Safe (VSS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). I was a whiz at checking files in and out, examining and comparing versions, and […]
Add custom tools to the menu
There are so many features in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript that I think I can’t live without, like the Format Script button, file groups, and conditional breakpoints. But, there are few features I’d love to have that aren’t there. They’re easy enough to add, but they’re really personal to me. Fortunately, I can add them […]
Property Pane: Change property values of multiple objects
Sometimes, I say things so many times that I start to believe them, even when I’m wrong. Here’s a correction of one of the details that I’ve gotten wrong repeatedly. “You can only use the Properties pane on one object at time.” — me Um, no. The Properties pane in PowerShell Studio displays the properties […]
GitHub: Tell Git to ignore files
This post demonstrates how to use ‘exclude’ and .gitignore files to exclude files from your GitHub repos, including the backup files that PowerShell Studio creates. Both are text files, but a .gitignore file is part of your repo, so it’s versioned and shared. The ‘exclude’ file is private to your clone on disk; it’s not […]
GitHub: How to update your fork
Like almost everyone in the DevOps world, I use GitHub, not because I like it, but because everyone uses it. In fact, I dislike it, because it’s confusing by design. Its misleading language excludes users, rather than welcoming them. To use it, you have to forget the actual meaning of words in English, or even […]
