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Alexey Melezhik
Alexey Melezhik

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Testing Powershell code with Tomty framework.

#powershell #perl6 #microsoft #testing

There is more then one way to test it ...

How to test Powershell modules using Perl6 and Tomty

Welcome Tomty

Tomty is a Sparrow6 based testing framework, written in Perl6. We use it to write tests.

Install 

zef install Tomty
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Usage

Write Powershell module

modules/hello/hello.ps1

function Hello { param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [String]$name ) Write-Host Hello $name }
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Write wrapper 

mkdir -p .tomty/tasks/test-hello
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.tomty/tasks/test-hello/task.ps1:

Import-Module hello $name = config 'name' Hello -name $name
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.tom/tasks/test-hello/task.check:

generator: print "Hello ".( config()->{name} )
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Write test

tomty --edit test-hello

task-run ".tomty/tasks/test-hello", %( name => "Sparrow6" )
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Run test

PSModulePath=$PWD/modules tomty test-hello

02:47:26 07/27/2019 [repository] index updated from file:///home/melezhik/repo/api/v1/index 02:47:26 07/27/2019 [.tom/tasks/test-hello] Hello Sparrow6 [task check] stdout match <Hello Sparrow6> True
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Run more tests

Once you have more tests, you run them all:

tomty --all

See Tomty documentation for other options.

Thank you for reading. I'd appreciate comments.

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