What should a Pester test strategy cover for production PowerShell automation?
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Plan Pester coverage for logic, parameter contracts, errors, and real integrations. Learn where mocks help and where acceptance checks are needed.
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Test pure logic directly, mock external boundaries only where necessary, verify parameter contracts and error paths, keep integration tests for real module or API behavior, and run a small end-to-end acceptance check in a safe environment.
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1PS> Invoke-Pester -Path .\tests -Output Detailed
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What kinds of mocks can make a test suite pass while production still fails?
