Beyond Pester 102: Acceptance testing with PowerShell
summary
Shows concrete acceptance work: writes a Mattermost backend for PoshBot, provisions systems with Docker and ~200 lines of PowerShell (pre-pester), and runs operational and user acceptance tests with Pester, OVF and CI (AppVeyor Travis CI VSTS GitLab CI). Unit/integration suites run in minutes but acceptance runs take an hour or more and required eight VMs in one example. Packages tests as a module, adds inspector metadata and generates readable reports — the automation works end to end.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 1:09Acceptance Testing
- 1:43Why Do You Even Test
- 9:23The Cleveland Framework
- 9:59Domains
- 14:18Change the Scope of Acceptance Testing To Reduce the Scope of Failure
- 17:56Operational Acceptance Tests
- 18:07The Operational Acceptance Tests
- 18:50Operational Validation
- 21:03Powershell Ovf Framework
- 22:12Get Operation Validation
- 24:01Pushbot To Run Ovf Tests on Demand
- 30:29Uat
- 35:24Testing Powershell Script
- 40:12Local Acceptance Test
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