{"id":86018,"date":"2015-12-17T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/?p=86018"},"modified":"2019-06-11T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:37:51","slug":"powertip-use-pester-to-test-functions-in-module-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-pester-to-test-functions-in-module-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use Pester to Test Functions in Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Pester to test new functions in your module.<\/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 can I unit test a non-exported function in my script module?<\/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;Use the&nbsp;<b>InModuleScope<\/b>&nbsp;command to execute some or all of your Pester script within the scope of <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the module you&rsquo;re testing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com\/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles\/00\/00\/00\/76\/18\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.comhttps:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/09\/dr_scripto-102x150.gif\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Pester to test new functions in your module. &nbsp;How can I unit test a non-exported function in my script module? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;InModuleScope&nbsp;command to execute some or all of your Pester script within the scope of &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the module you&rsquo;re testing.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-86018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Pester to test new functions in your module. &nbsp;How can I unit test a non-exported function in my script module? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;InModuleScope&nbsp;command to execute some or all of your Pester script within the scope of &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the module you&rsquo;re testing.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86018","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=86018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86018\/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=86018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}