Validate Powershell Code with Pester

November 19, 2018

Example on how you can verify that code in a Powershell script is valid Powershell code using Pester

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Describe 'Valid Powershell code' {

$folder = [folder path]
$files = Get-ChildItem $Folder -Recurse | Where-Object name -like '*.ps1'
foreach ($file in $files) {
Context "Test file : $file" {
It "$file has valid PowerShell code" {
$psFile = Get-Content $file.FullName
$errors = $null
$null = [System.Management.Automation.PSParser]::Tokenize($psFile, [ref]$errors)

$errors.count | Should Be 0
}
}
}
}

Validate Powershell Code with Pester

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