Hey Mastodon, question for my #sysadmin and #DevOps types. Has anyone used #Pester and #PSScriptAnalyzer to set up unit testing for test driven development, particularly on (relatively) simple scripts like you might use for application detection, installation, and uninstallation from a system like #SCCM #Intune or #ManageEngine ?
Apologies for the buzzword bingo, but I’m trying to reach folks who may be following the hashtags, but not necessarily have a connection otherwise.
@pidgin Also if anyone wants to explore more themselves, meson makes this really easy.
From the top of our source tree you can run meson with the following command
meson build -Db_coverage=true -Dgplugin:vapi=false build-coverage
The vala bindings need to be disabled because the confuse gcovr.
Once configuration is done you can run the tests and generate the coverage report with the following
cd build-coverage
ninja turtles
ninja coverage-html
@pidgin Some more info. Keep in mind that the 130 suites include libraries we maintain as well, but the code coverage here does not include.
Also, the coverage includes, libpurple, pidgin, and the protocol plugins and that pidgin and the protocol plugins aren't exactly testable although we have some stuff we're working on for that.
In case you were thinking about converting all your automated tests to `node:test`:
If using Typescript means you want to write less Unit Tests then, actually, I'm all for it. Type away, with JSDoc comments.
But I'm still making you write end-to-end functional browser tests.
> #UnitTests slide down the cost / benefit continuum. This doesn’t mean that nobody uses them, or that there aren’t systems where they make sense (such as a physics engine or net code, say). In general, though, it means a smaller proportion of #game #devs use #unit #tests as compared to other #software disciplines.
The more I dive into (unit) testing in #Python, the more I feel this is much more a form of art than it is a science.
Would anyone know of #OpenSource Python projects with good test suites that I could read to try to get better at this?
Thanks in advance!
