Migrating from Pester 4 to Pester 5

⚠️ Pester 5 currently in alpha mode. This wiki page is likely out of date. See Readme.md in v5.0 branch for latest updates.

New Features in Pester v5

• Focused Tests and Test blocks using -Focus parameter.
• Implicit parameters for TestCases
• Improved debugging
• Test discovery

Bug Fixes

• Internal functions are hidden
• Execution order

Breaking Changes

1. Running tests interactively is not currently supported and will result in following console error:

Running tests interactively (e.g. by pressing F5 in your IDE) is not supported, run tests via Invoke-Pester.

WIP

• Nested blocks and their setups
• Leaking scopes