Windows PowerShell Best Practices

Chapter 13. Testing scripts

• Using basic syntax checking techniques

• Conducting performance testing of scripts

• Using standard parameters

• Using Start-Transcript to produce a log

• Advanced script testing

• Additional resources

If you take the time to write a script, you should take a few additional minutes to test the script. How do you know what to test in the script? For many IT professionals, testing a script is nothing more than running the script and looking for errors. If the script runs without errors, the script is considered to be a good script. As you will learn in this chapter, there is more to testing a script than determining whether it runs without errors. When testing your scripts, it is a best practice to check the basic syntax of the script. ...