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Concepts

• What is Pester?
• Isolating File Operations using the TestDrive
• Isolating Windows Registry Operations using the TestRegistry
• Performing Assertions with Should
• Mocking Commands with Pester
• Unit Testing within Modules
• Showing Test Results in CI (TeamCity, AppVeyor, Azure DevOps)
• Generating Code Coverage metrics with Pester
• Contributing to Pester
• Pester on PowerShell Core - limitations
• Articles and other resources

Installation and usage

• Installation and update
• Migrating from Pester 3 to Pester 4

Feedback and contributing to Pester

• Opening issues
• Bug related issues
• Feature requests
• Contributing to Pester
• Developement rules - technical

Command Reference

Command reference section is not updated automatically yet - please check the help for functions too Get-Help CommandName -Full.

• Describe
• Context
• It
• Should
• BeforeEach
• AfterEach
• In
• New‐Fixture
• New‐MockObject
• Invoke‐Pester
• New‐PesterOption
• Mock
• Assert‐VerifiableMocks
• Assert‐MockCalled
• InModuleScope
• Set‐ItResult
• Set‐TestInconclusive