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Downloads:

369,805

Downloads of v 1.0.7-alpha-0:

611

Last Update:

02 Oct 2012

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Scott Muc

Tags:

Pester

This is a prerelease version of Pester.

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1.0.7-alpha-0 | Updated: 02 Oct 2012

Downloads:

369,805

Downloads of v 1.0.7-alpha-0:

611

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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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 26 Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Approved
Pester 5.6.1 26550 Monday, July 1, 2024 Approved
Pester 5.6.0 7381 Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Approved
Pester 5.5.0 19379 Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Approved
Pester 5.4.1 5194 Wednesday, April 5, 2023 Approved
Pester 5.4.0 5287 Tuesday, January 10, 2023 Approved
Pester 5.3.3 22220 Friday, April 29, 2022 Approved
Pester 5.3.2 936 Friday, April 22, 2022 Approved
Pester 5.3.1 13379 Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.3.0 3836 Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.2.2 9341 Thursday, May 27, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.2.1 1411 Thursday, May 13, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.2.0 997 Thursday, May 6, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.1.1 6191 Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.1.0 175 Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.0.4 3112 Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Approved
Pester 5.0.4-beta1 354 Thursday, August 13, 2020 Exempted
Pester 4.10.2-beta1 130 Saturday, May 29, 2021 Approved
Pester 4.10.1 21730 Friday, February 7, 2020 Approved
Pester 4.9.0 11791 Sunday, September 8, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.8.1 8496 Saturday, May 11, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.8.0 1163 Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.3 3538 Saturday, March 23, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.2 1407 Friday, March 8, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.1 671 Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.7.0 671 Sunday, March 3, 2019 Approved
Pester 4.4.1 9065 Thursday, September 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.4.0 5083 Friday, July 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.4.0-beta2 364 Sunday, July 8, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.4.0-beta 469 Sunday, May 6, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.3.1 7752 Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.3.0 459 Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.2.0 578 Sunday, February 18, 2018 Approved
Pester 4.2.0-alpha3 453 Sunday, December 17, 2017 Exempted
Pester 4.2.0-alpha2 472 Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Exempted
Pester 4.1.0 6118 Sunday, November 26, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.6-rc 636 Thursday, August 17, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.5-rc 516 Tuesday, July 25, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.3-rc 551 Wednesday, March 22, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.2-rc 577 Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.1-rc 446 Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Approved
Pester 4.0.0-rc1 523 Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Approved
Pester 3.4.6 28715 Friday, January 13, 2017 Approved
Pester 3.4.3 15534 Friday, August 26, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.4.2 1381 Tuesday, August 2, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.4.1 8966 Friday, July 22, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.4.0 5996 Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Approved
Pester 3.3.14 5558 Wednesday, December 16, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.13 10007 Thursday, December 10, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.12 665 Tuesday, December 8, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.11 7093 Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.10 2393 Friday, August 14, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.9 6727 Sunday, May 24, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.8 5058 Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.7 530 Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.6 1926 Thursday, March 19, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.5 2837 Friday, January 23, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.4 539 Thursday, January 22, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.3 485 Thursday, January 22, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.2 519 Monday, January 19, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.1 551 Monday, January 12, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.3.0 462 Saturday, January 10, 2015 Approved
Pester 3.2.0 689 Saturday, December 13, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.1.1 684 Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.3 502 Monday, October 13, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.2 688 Monday, September 8, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.1.1 563 Thursday, August 28, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.0 506 Thursday, August 21, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.0-beta2 587 Friday, July 4, 2014 Approved
Pester 3.0.0-beta 585 Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Approved
Pester 2.1.0 629 Sunday, June 15, 2014 Approved
Pester 2.0.4 694 Sunday, March 9, 2014 Approved
Pester 2.0.3 1003 Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Approved
Pester 2.0.2 6271 Thursday, February 28, 2013 Approved
Pester 2.0.1 602 Sunday, February 3, 2013 Approved
Pester 1.2.1 577 Sunday, February 3, 2013 Approved
Pester 1.1.0 648 Sunday, November 4, 2012 Approved
Pester 1.0.7-alpha-0 611 Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Approved
Pester 1.0.6 590 Sunday, August 12, 2012 Approved

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