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Downloads:

339,517

Downloads of v 1.0.7-alpha-0:

592

Last Update:

02 Oct 2012

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Scott Muc

Tags:

powershell testing bdd

Pester

This is a prerelease version of Pester.

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1.0.7-alpha-0 | Updated: 02 Oct 2012

Downloads:

339,517

Downloads of v 1.0.7-alpha-0:

592

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Scott Muc

Pester 1.0.7-alpha-0

This is a prerelease version of Pester.

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Scott Muc. The inclusion of Scott Muc trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Scott Muc goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Scan Testing Successful:

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Pester, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Pester, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Pester, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade pester -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'1.0.7-alpha-0'" --prerelease [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade pester -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'1.0.7-alpha-0'" --prerelease
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install pester
  win_chocolatey:
    name: pester
    version: '1.0.7-alpha-0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present
    allow_prerelease: yes

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'pester' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '1.0.7-alpha-0'
  options  '--prerelease'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller pester
{
    Name        = "pester"
    Version     = "1.0.7-alpha-0"
    Source      = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
    chocoParams = "--prerelease"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'pester':
  ensure          => '1.0.7-alpha-0',
  install_options => ['--prerelease'],
  provider        => 'chocolatey',
  source          => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 20 Jan 2015.

Description

A BDD style testing tool for Powershell


Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Pester 5.7.0 16 Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Approved
Pester 5.6.1 26369 Monday, July 1, 2024 Approved
Pester 5.6.0 5603 Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Approved
Pester 5.5.0 19346 Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Approved
Pester 5.4.1 5157 Wednesday, April 5, 2023 Approved
Pester 5.4.0 5273 Tuesday, January 10, 2023 Approved
Pester 5.3.3 22099 Friday, April 29, 2022 Approved
Pester 5.3.2 921 Friday, April 22, 2022 Approved
Pester 5.3.1 13075 Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.3.0 3827 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.2.2 9294 Thursday, May 27, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.2.1 1387 Thursday, May 13, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.2.0 988 Thursday, May 6, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.1.1 6088 Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.1.0 163 Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.0.4 2903 Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.0.4-beta1 335 Thursday, August 13, 2020 Exempted
Pester 4.10.2-beta1 113 Saturday, May 29, 2021 Approved
Pester 4.10.1 21618 Friday, February 7, 2020 Approved
Pester 4.9.0 11183 Sunday, September 8, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.8.1 8485 Saturday, May 11, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.8.0 1155 Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.3 3526 Saturday, March 23, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.2 1395 Friday, March 8, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.1 656 Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.0 654 Sunday, March 3, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.4.1 9052 Thursday, September 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.4.0 5075 Friday, July 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.4.0-beta2 347 Sunday, July 8, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.4.0-beta 459 Sunday, May 6, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.3.1 7623 Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.3.0 451 Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.2.0 566 Sunday, February 18, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.2.0-alpha3 440 Sunday, December 17, 2017 Exempted
Pester 4.2.0-alpha2 455 Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Exempted
Pester 4.1.0 6104 Sunday, November 26, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.6-rc 623 Thursday, August 17, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.5-rc 505 Tuesday, July 25, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.3-rc 535 Wednesday, March 22, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.2-rc 568 Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.1-rc 438 Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.0-rc1 509 Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Approved
Pester 3.4.6 28699 Friday, January 13, 2017 Approved
Pester 3.4.3 15526 Friday, August 26, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.4.2 1370 Tuesday, August 2, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.4.1 8953 Friday, July 22, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.4.0 5963 Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.3.14 5548 Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.13 9996 Thursday, December 10, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.12 656 Tuesday, December 8, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.11 7080 Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.10 2378 Friday, August 14, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.9 6715 Sunday, May 24, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.8 5045 Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.7 516 Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.6 1913 Thursday, March 19, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.5 2830 Friday, January 23, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.4 531 Thursday, January 22, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.3 475 Thursday, January 22, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.2 509 Monday, January 19, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.1 540 Monday, January 12, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.0 452 Saturday, January 10, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.2.0 679 Saturday, December 13, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.1.1 671 Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.3 490 Monday, October 13, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.2 680 Monday, September 8, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.1.1 551 Thursday, August 28, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.0 487 Thursday, August 21, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.0-beta2 565 Friday, July 4, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.0-beta 570 Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Approved
Pester 2.1.0 613 Sunday, June 15, 2014 Approved
Pester 2.0.4 678 Sunday, March 9, 2014 Approved
Pester 2.0.3 994 Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Approved
Pester 2.0.2 6133 Thursday, February 28, 2013 Approved
Pester 2.0.1 589 Sunday, February 3, 2013 Approved
Pester 1.2.1 566 Sunday, February 3, 2013 Approved
Pester 1.1.0 628 Sunday, November 4, 2012 Approved
Pester 1.0.7-alpha-0 592 Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Approved
Pester 1.0.6 580 Sunday, August 12, 2012 Approved

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