Top 7 PowerShell Testing Projects

Pester

24 3,011 6.2 PowerShell

Pester is the ubiquitous test and mock framework for PowerShell.

Project mention: PyPyInstaller Powershell Module Initial Code Push | dev.to | 2023-09-25

Pester is what's used for most Powershell testing. While it has some pretty amazing features, it does have issues with .NET class method mocking and sometimes scope can be weird. Here's a simple example:

Penetration-Testing-Tools

3 2,413 4.1 PowerShell

A collection of more than 170+ tools, scripts, cheatsheets and other loots that I've developed over years for Red Teaming/Pentesting/IT Security audits purposes.
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
PowerShellTraps

4 426 3.2 PowerShell

Collection of PowerShell traps and oddities

Project mention: If you have no experience, learn Powershell (or Python) | /r/ITCareerQuestions | 2023-12-08

PowerShell Traps

RanSim

8 172 0.0 PowerShell

Ransomware simulation script written in PowerShell. Useful for testing your defenses and backups against real ransomware-like activity in a controlled setting.
FlaUI-Powershell-Demos

1 8 0.7 PowerShell

Automation samples for using FlaUI within Powershell
aztraphile

4 6 7.9 PowerShell

mature Python Azure Function App in 8 lines of config <⚡>

Project mention: I slept on GenAI quite a while and am not a huge fan but I gotta admit it can come in handy - take a look at this logo I created for one of my sideprojects - maybe you get the idea behind the logo and can generate a better version? | /r/OpenAI | 2023-11-10

TestingModule

1 2 5.6 PowerShell

This module is for providing code to easily see PowerShell functionality.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).