The Importance of Documentation Driven Development

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Pester uses a simple testing framework called P, just letter B because it's very small. It has like 100 lines of code and we use that to automate 90% of what we're testing on Pester. Every time we have an issue, we try to create at least one new test for this that links to the issue on GitHub. But I don't really have a strong recommendation or answer as long as if you introduce a bug that you saw before, hopefully there is a best that's failing.

In the latest episode of the PowerShell podcast, we had an insightful chat with Jakub Jareš, the lead maintainer of Pester and a software engineer at Microsoft. The talk circled around the history, growth, and importance of Pester, Jakub's role in the organization and delivery of PSConfEU this year, as well as Profiler, a beneficial PowerShell project for unraveling performance hurdles. The episode concluded on a personal note, discussing Jakub's journey within the PowerShell community and his ascension to his current position at Microsoft.

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Jakub is the Pester owner and maintainer. Senior software engineer, developing VSTest and MSTest at Microsoft. He also maintains Profiler and Assert.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB8wkipUNUc

https://jakubjares.com/2018/01/01/7-years-of-pester/

https://github.com/nohwnd

https://github.com/nohwnd/Profiler

https://twitter.com/nohwnd

https://pester.dev

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_47l_1HjEMIpqqOYLtPo3d6FYZ8XwgsT

https://pester.dev/docs/quick-start