{"id":75081,"date":"2015-12-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/12\/14\/powertip-get-started-with-pester-tests-and-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:40","slug":"powertip-get-started-with-pester-tests-and-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-get-started-with-pester-tests-and-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Get Started with Pester Tests and PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Learn how to start a Pester test.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How do I run Pester tests?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Place your tests into a file with a name that ends with .Tests.ps1, and then run the&nbsp;<b>Invoke-Pester<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to start a Pester test. &nbsp;How do I run Pester tests? &nbsp;Place your tests into a file with a name that ends with .Tests.ps1, and then run the&nbsp;Invoke-Pester&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[501,56,636,356,45],"class_list":["post-75081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-dave-wyatt","tag-guest-blogger","tag-pester","tag-powertip","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to start a Pester test. &nbsp;How do I run Pester tests? &nbsp;Place your tests into a file with a name that ends with .Tests.ps1, and then run the&nbsp;Invoke-Pester&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}