PowerShell+ 2019 - Beyond Pester 102: Acceptance testing with PowerShell by Glenn Sarti
0Previously in "Beyond Pester 101: Applying testing principles to PowerShell" I talked about unit and integration testing with Pester and PowerShell. Now that we're all experts there, it's time to tackle Acceptance testing, also known as End to End testing.
Topics:
## What is acceptance testing?
- How is it different to unit and integration tests?
- How does pester fit in?
- Difference in testing between Modules, DSC configurations and applications
## What am I trying to achieve?
- Remember "Why do I test?"
- Minimal tests for maximum confidence
## Part 1 - Creating the systems under test
- For example; Test-Kitchen and Docker
## Part 2 - Running the tests
- For example; Pester or OVF
## Part 3 - Automating acceptance tests
- Using automated testing systems, for example, Appveyor, Travis CI, VSTS, GitLab CI
## Additional considerations
- Instrumentation
- Optimisation
## Further information
- Links to other resources
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