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PowerShell-PowerShell/test/powershell
Jonas Andersen ca30054761 Added BinPath, Description, UserName and Delayed Auto Start to Get-Service (#4907)
Added the following to the  Get-Service  command:
•BinaryPathName (Was suggested as  ServicePath )
•Description
•UserName (Was suggested as  LogOnAs )
•DelayedAutoStart
•ServiceStartupType

The ServiceStartupType was also added, providing the user access to use services like in  services.msc , having  Automatic ,  Automatic (Delayed Start) ,  Manual  and  Disabled  as options (Also includes  InvalidValue  as an initial value for  ServiceStartupType )
2017-10-24 10:54:07 +04:00
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Pester Testing Test Guide

Also see the Writing Pester Tests document.

Running Pester Tests

Go to the top level of the PowerShell repository and run: Start-PSPester inside a self-hosted copy of PowerShell.

You can use Start-PSPester -Tests SomeTestSuite* to limit the tests run.

Testing new powershell processes

Any launch of a new powershell process must include -noprofile so that modified user and system profiles do not causes tests to fail. You also must take care to call the development copy of PowerShell, which is not the first one on the path.

Example:

    $powershell = Join-Path -Path $PsHome -ChildPath "pwsh"
    & $powershell -noprofile -command "ExampleCommand" | Should Be "ExampleOutput"

Portability

Some tests simply must be tied to certain platforms. Use Pester's -Skip directive on an It statement to do this. For instance to run the test only on Windows:

It "Should do something on Windows" -Skip:($IsLinux -Or $IsMacOS) { ... }

Or only on Linux and OS X:

It "Should do something on Linux" -Skip:$IsWindows { ... }

Pending

When writing a test that should pass, but does not, please do not skip or delete the test, but use It "Should Pass" -Pending to mark the test as pending, and file an issue on GitHub.