Pester

6.0.0-alpha4

Pester provides a framework for running BDD style Tests to execute and validate PowerShell commands inside of PowerShell and offers a powerful set of Mocking Functions that allow tests to mimic and mock the functionality of any command inside of a piece of PowerShell code being tested. Pester tests can execute any command or script that is accessible to a pester test file. This can include functions, Cmdlets, Modules and scripts. Pester can be run in ad hoc style in a console or it can be integrated into the Build scripts of a Continuous Integration system.

Minimum PowerShell version

5.1

This is a prerelease version of Pester.

There is a newer prerelease version of this module available.
See the version list below for details.

Installation Options

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using PowerShellGet More Info

Install-Module -Name Pester -RequiredVersion 6.0.0-alpha4 -AllowPrerelease

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet More Info

Install-PSResource -Name Pester -Version 6.0.0-alpha4 -Prerelease

You can deploy this package directly to Azure Automation. Note that deploying packages with dependencies will deploy all the dependencies to Azure Automation. Learn More

Manually download the .nupkg file to your system's default download location. Note that the file won't be unpacked, and won't include any dependencies. Learn More

Owners

Copyright

Package Details

Author(s)

Pester Team

Functions

Invoke-Pester Describe Context It Mock InModuleScope BeforeDiscovery BeforeAll BeforeEach AfterEach AfterAll Should Add-ShouldOperator Get-ShouldOperator Export-NUnitReport ConvertTo-NUnitReport Export-JUnitReport ConvertTo-JUnitReport ConvertTo-Pester4Result New-PesterContainer New-PesterConfiguration Should-BeFalse Should-BeTrue Should-BeFalsy Should-BeTruthy Should-All Should-Any Should-ContainCollection Should-NotContainCollection Should-BeCollection Should-BeEquivalent Should-Throw Should-Be Should-BeGreaterThan Should-BeGreaterThanOrEqual Should-BeLessThan Should-BeLessThanOrEqual Should-NotBe Should-NotBeNull Should-NotBeSame Should-NotHaveType Should-BeNull Should-BeSame Should-HaveType Should-BeString Should-NotBeString Should-BeEmptyString Should-NotBeWhiteSpaceString Should-NotBeEmptyString Should-BeLikeString Should-NotBeLikeString Should-BeFasterThan Should-BeSlowerThan Should-BeBefore Should-BeAfter New-MockObject New-Fixture Set-ItResult

PSEditions

Core Desktop

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

https://github.com/pester/Pester/releases/tag/6.0.0-alpha4

FileList

Pester.nuspec
en-US\about_Pester.help.txt
Pester.Format.ps1xml
en-US\about_PesterConfiguration.help.txt
schemas\JaCoCo\report.dtd
Pester.ps1
schemas\JUnit4\junit_schema_4.xsd
Pester.psd1
schemas\NUnit25\nunit_schema_2.5.xsd
Pester.psm1
schemas\NUnit3\TestDefinitions.xsd
PesterConfiguration.Format.ps1xml
schemas\NUnit3\TestFilterDefinitions.xsd
bin\net462\Pester.dll
schemas\NUnit3\TestResult.xsd
bin\net6.0\Pester.dll

Version History

Version	Downloads	Last updated
6.2.0	819,579	9/9/2026
6.2.0-alpha2	76	9/5/2026
6.2.0-alpha1	234	8/30/2026
6.1.0	538,030	8/11/2026
6.1.0-rc1	326	8/6/2026
6.1.0-alpha2	783	7/17/2026
6.1.0-alpha1	398	7/9/2026
6.0.1	463,771	7/18/2026
6.0.0	255,733	7/7/2026
6.0.0-rc5	177	7/3/2026
6.0.0-rc4	174	6/30/2026
6.0.0-rc3	130	6/29/2026
6.0.0-rc2	212	6/28/2026
6.0.0-rc1	99	6/28/2026
6.0.0-alpha5	24,535	10/30/2024
6.0.0-alpha4 (current version)	1,852	7/5/2024
6.0.0-alpha3	113	6/26/2024
6.0.0-alpha2	43	6/26/2024
6.0.0-alpha1	11,374	6/5/2024
5.9.1	206,300	8/11/2026
5.9.0	194,683	7/7/2026
5.8.0	146,862	6/30/2026
5.7.1	12,857,142	1/8/2025
5.7.0	43,032	1/8/2025
5.6.1	3,016,549	7/1/2024
5.6.0	337,030	6/5/2024
5.6.0-rc1	364	5/17/2024
5.6.0-beta1	763	4/25/2024
5.5.0	3,287,116	6/27/2023
5.5.0-rc1	903	6/16/2023
5.4.1	786,485	4/5/2023
5.4.0	677,943	1/10/2023
5.4.0-rc1	1,510	11/6/2022
5.3.3	1,766,566	4/29/2022
5.3.2	35,177	4/22/2022
5.3.1	1,466,456	9/21/2021
5.3.0	1,322,654	8/17/2021
5.3.0-rc1	540	8/3/2021
5.3.0-beta1	153	7/23/2021
5.3.0-alpha5	329	6/24/2021
5.3.0-alpha4	421	6/2/2021
5.3.0-alpha2	70	5/31/2021
5.3.0-alpha1	467	5/13/2021
5.2.2	636,081	5/27/2021
5.2.1	114,421	5/13/2021
5.2.0	68,598	5/6/2021
5.2.0-rc2	724	5/1/2021
5.2.0-rc1	779	4/25/2021
5.2.0-beta1	673	4/24/2021
5.2.0-alpha3	940	3/29/2021
5.2.0-alpha2	1,184	3/7/2021
5.2.0-alpha1	831	3/6/2021
5.1.1	1,233,769	12/11/2020
5.1.0	52,118	11/25/2020
5.1.0-rc2	5,081	11/19/2020
5.1.0-rc1	1,073	11/7/2020
5.1.0-beta4	778	11/1/2020
5.1.0-beta3	899	10/25/2020
5.1.0-beta2	1,040	10/7/2020
5.1.0-beta1	828	9/18/2020
5.0.5-beta1	951	9/4/2020
5.0.4	157,781	9/3/2020
5.0.4-beta1	561	8/13/2020
5.0.3	118,605	8/8/2020
5.0.2	264,985	6/2/2020
5.0.1	159,139	5/28/2020
5.0.0	43,584	5/27/2020
5.0.0-rc9	1,349	5/16/2020
5.0.0-rc8	1,019	5/14/2020
5.0.0-rc7	798	5/12/2020
5.0.0-rc6	2,779	5/4/2020
5.0.0-rc5	1,726	4/24/2020
5.0.0-rc4	839	4/20/2020
5.0.0-rc3	1,055	4/14/2020
5.0.0-rc1	1,246	4/4/2020
5.0.0-beta	1,330	2/8/2020
5.0.0-alpha4	1,540	5/26/2019
5.0.0-alpha3	1,559	3/23/2019
4.10.2-beta1	670	5/29/2021
4.10.1	10,012,099	2/7/2020
4.10.0	585,504	2/1/2020
4.9.0	1,081,019	9/8/2019
4.8.1	514,504	5/11/2019
4.8.0	65,102	5/1/2019
4.7.3	118,248	3/23/2019
4.7.2	57,899	3/8/2019
4.7.1	20,817	3/5/2019
4.7.0	32,871	3/3/2019
4.7.0-beta1	756	2/23/2019
4.6.0	303,120	1/21/2019
4.5.0	96,311	1/10/2019
4.5.0-beta2	763	1/5/2019
4.5.0-beta1	842	12/20/2018
4.4.4	28,059	1/3/2019
4.4.3	48,411	12/11/2018
4.4.2	164,621	10/3/2018
4.4.1	24,598	9/26/2018
4.4.0	111,112	7/20/2018
4.4.0-beta2	23,144	7/8/2018
4.4.0-beta	23,098	5/6/2018
4.3.1	367,362	2/20/2018
4.2.0	28,064	2/18/2018
4.2.0-alpha3	22,893	12/17/2017
4.2.0-alpha2	22,757	12/12/2017
4.2.0-alpha1	47,779	12/12/2017
4.1.1	155,494	12/9/2017
4.1.0	96,241	11/15/2017
4.0.8	90,828	9/15/2017
4.0.7	7,603	9/13/2017
4.0.6	84,476	8/17/2017
4.0.5	82,066	7/25/2017
4.0.4	21,070	7/14/2017
4.0.3	178,206	3/22/2017
4.0.2	15,332	1/18/2017
3.4.6	24,179	1/13/2017
3.4.5	1,041	1/12/2017
3.4.3	33,020	8/26/2016
3.4.2	4,380	8/2/2016
3.4.1	1,733	7/22/2016
3.4.0	88,726	3/1/2016
3.3.14	1,367	12/16/2015
3.3.13	454	12/10/2015
3.3.12	347	12/8/2015
3.3.11	786	9/8/2015
3.3.10	505	8/14/2015
3.3.9	6,625	5/24/2015
3.3.8	436	4/15/2015
3.3.7	313	4/15/2015
3.3.6	372	3/19/2015
3.3.5	925	1/23/2015
3.3.4	329	1/22/2015
3.2.0	724	12/3/2014
3.1.1	376	10/30/2014
3.0.3	762	10/11/2014

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