Windows PowerShell™ 2.0 Best Practices

Chapter 14. Testing Scripts

• Using Basic Syntax Checking Techniques 499

• Conducting Performance Testing of Scripts 512

• Using Standard Parameters 528

• Using Start-Transcript to Produce a Log 536

• Advanced Script Testing 537

• Additional Resources 541

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 ...