Passed test - return values

[UKHO-AH]

Within my test script, I return the server name as a Tag e.g.

Context "Checking path is set" {
        It "should be set to the server name" -Tag ($_.'ServerName') {
            $paths | Should -Contain $_.'ServerName' -Because "$_.'ServerName' should be in the path"
        }
    }

In my script that executes my tests, I pull back values from my scripts like this:

$PesterResults = Invoke-Pester -Configuration $PesterConfig
$PesterResults.Passed | Foreach-Object {
        $ServerName = $_.Tag
        $TestName = $_.Name
        $Description = $_.Block.ExpandedName
        $Result = $_.Result
        $ExecutedAt = $_.ExecutedAt`

My question is, how can I pull back the Context, It and Because for Passed tests?

For failed tests, it's straightforward as the ErrorRecord is returned:

$PesterResults.Failed | Foreach-Object {
        $ServerName = $_.Tag
        $TestName = $_.Name
        $Description = $_.ErrorRecord.DisplayErrorMessage -replace '(?ms)^Expected length:.*?(?=Expected:)' -replace '(?ms)^String lengths.*?(?=Expected:)' -replace '(?ms)^ .*|.+ $' -replace "'","''"
        $Result = $_.Result
        $ExecutedAt = $_.ExecutedAt

Many thanks

[nohwnd]

You should get tags like this

(even though the code above looks like it won't work in pester 5, because you use $_ in the it, but there is no -ForEach provided)

$r = Invoke-Pester -Container (New-PesterContainer -ScriptBlock {
    Context "Checking path is set" -Tag "CCCCCCC" {
            It "should be set to the server name" -Tag "TTTTTTTTT" {
                
            }
        }
    }) -PassThru


$r.Containers.Blocks.Tag
$r.Containers.Blocks.Tests.Tag

[nohwnd]

Containers, Blocks, Tests are arrays, so you can index into them.

similarly you can go to Passed tests, and look at Tag on each one of them, and navigate to its parent blocks via .Block Property

$r.Passed.Tag
$r.Passed.Block.Tag

[UKHO-AH]

Thanks for your reply. Specifically I want to pull back the Because for a passed test. Is that straightforward?

[nohwnd]

I don't think we store the information from passing assertions anywhere.

[UKHO-AH]

Ah, that's what I was trying to do. I insert all my results into an SSRS report, so it would have been useful to show the Context, IT and then the Because to give a clear description of the full test that was passed

[nohwnd]

You can get the test and its parent blocks from a passed test, $r.Passed.Name, $r.Passed.Block.ExpandedName, $r.Passed.Tag.

Because you cannot get, we don't store anything from passing assertions.