fix(build): float Pester, own the test task, and harden bootstrap - #50
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Brings the template up to the pattern proven in JsmOperations and
YouTubeMusicPS. Derived repos inherit whatever ships here, so this is the
piece that stops the same four problems being seeded into every new repo.
build.depend.psd1 -- Version 'latest' instead of the 6.0.1 pin.
Pester 6 discovers each file separately and autoloads Pester to resolve
Describe; autoload always picks the highest installed version, so an
exact pin below the runner image's version collides with itself:
An incompatible version of the Pester.dll assembly is already loaded.
build.psake.ps1 -- custom UnitTest task replacing PowerShellBuild's
'Pester' task, gating on failed containers and failed setup/teardown
blocks as well as failed tests. A file that dies during discovery
generates no tests at all, so a FailedCount-only check reports success
while the file never runs.
build.ps1 -- install dependencies before importing them, tolerate
Register-PSRepository -Default failing on Windows, and compose error
detail into a single throw.
CI.yaml -- drop the module cache and bound both jobs with
timeout-minutes. See the in-file comments for the measurements.
Verified by rendering the template with Initialize-Template.ps1 and
running the result end to end: 30 passed, exit 0. The setup/teardown gate
was confirmed with a deliberately throwing AfterAll: 31 passed, 0 failed,
build correctly exited 1.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates PowerShell dependency bootstrap, adds a custom Pester unit-test task, changes task dependencies, and adds CI timeouts with conditional module installation. ChangesBuild and test flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The build changes can still load an incompatible Pester assembly during bootstrap, and the test task may report success without executing any tests in an empty or incorrectly filtered directory. Merge should wait until these cases are isolated or explicitly guarded. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the template’s build and CI plumbing to better tolerate Pester version drift on hosted runners, ensure test execution failures are correctly surfaced (including discovery/setup/teardown failures), and harden bootstrap behavior so dependency install/import is more reliable across platforms.
Changes:
- Float Pester in
build.depend.psd1(Version = 'latest') to avoid runner-image version collisions. - Replace PowerShellBuild’s default Pester task with a custom
UnitTesttask that fails on failed containers and failed setup/teardown blocks. - Harden
build.ps1bootstrap by registering PSGallery more defensively and installing dependencies before importing them; remove module caching in CI and add job timeouts.
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| build.psake.ps1 | Adds a custom UnitTest task and rewires Test dependencies to use it for more robust Pester gating. |
| build.ps1 | Makes bootstrap dependency handling more robust (PSGallery registration fallback, install-before-import, improved error composition). |
| build.depend.psd1 | Floats Pester to latest to prevent assembly/version mismatch issues on runners. |
| .github/workflows/CI.yaml | Removes ineffective module caching, adds timeouts, and skips redundant installs when tools are already available. |
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Import-Module -Name $newestPester passed a PSModuleInfo, which stringifies to its Name, so it imported 'Pester' by name and let PowerShell resolve the version. Verified with 5.7.1 preloaded: it raised the assembly collision this task exists to prevent and left the session on 5.7.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G1CarQG8VibNFxw4cN53Zs
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In `@build.psake.ps1`:
- Around line 215-244: Update the UnitTest result checks to throw when
$testResult.TotalCount equals zero, after the existing FailedContainersCount and
FailedBlocksCount checks and before the normal FailedCount check. Preserve
Test.Enabled as the explicit opt-out and retain all existing failure handling.
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Every existing gate counts failures, and a run that executes nothing produces zero of all of them -- so it reports success having tested nothing. That is the same hole this task exists to close, in the task itself. Two distinct ways to get there, measured against Pester 6.1.0: empty test directory -> discovered 0, not run 0 -> passed filter matching no test -> discovered 120, not run 120 -> passed TotalCount alone only catches the first, because it counts NotRun. The gate therefore checks executed tests: TotalCount minus NotRunCount. Both counts are cast to int first -- with nothing discovered they come back null, and null arithmetic left the diagnostic message blank. Verified all three directions: filter-matches-nothing exits 1, empty directory exits 1, normal run reports 118 passed and exits 0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G1CarQG8VibNFxw4cN53Zs
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build.psake.ps1:151
- When build.depend.psd1 ever pins a specific Pester version (i.e., not 'latest'), this branch can still hit the same "incompatible Pester.dll already loaded" failure if another Pester version is already loaded in the session. Unlike the 'latest' branch, it doesn't unload an existing Pester module before importing the required version.
if ($pesterVersion -and $pesterVersion -ne 'latest') {
Import-Module -Name 'Pester' -RequiredVersion $pesterVersion -Force -ErrorAction 'Stop'
}
Follow-up to the previous gate, which used TotalCount minus NotRunCount. That misses a suite where every test is skipped: skipped tests are neither NotRun nor executed-with-a-result, so the subtraction stays positive and the build passes having run nothing. Measured against Pester 6.1.0: empty test directory Total 0 Passed 0 Failed 0 Skipped 0 NotRun 0 filter matching no test Total 120 Passed 0 Failed 0 Skipped 0 NotRun 120 every test -Skip Total 3 Passed 0 Failed 0 Skipped 3 NotRun 0 Filtering on the per-test .Executed property does not distinguish the third case either -- skipped tests report Executed = $true. Only PassedCount plus FailedCount separates a suite that ran from one that did not, so the gate uses that. Verified all three: all-skipped exits 1, empty directory exits 1, and a normal run with two legitimate skips reports 118 passed and exits 0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G1CarQG8VibNFxw4cN53Zs
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In `@build.ps1`:
- Around line 168-178: Isolate the bootstrap and UnitTest execution from already
loaded Pester assemblies so Invoke-PSDepend in build.ps1 cannot import an
incompatible latest Pester version in-process. Update build.ps1 and its
bootstrap/Test flow to run in a clean pwsh process, or add an explicit
loaded-Pester version compatibility check before importing; account for the
Pester dependency in build.depend.psd1 and the invocation path in
build.psake.ps1.
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Brings the template up to the pattern already proven in JsmOperations and YouTubeMusicPS. Derived repos inherit whatever ships here, so this is the piece that stops the same problems being seeded into every new repo.
Changes
build.depend.psd1—Version = 'latest'instead of the6.0.1pin. Pester 6 discovers each file separately and autoloads Pester to resolveDescribe; autoload always picks the highest installed version, so an exact pin below the runner image's version collides with itself:build.psake.ps1— customUnitTesttask replacing PowerShellBuild'sPestertask, gating on failed containers and failed setup/teardown blocks as well as failed tests. A file that dies during discovery generates no tests at all, so aFailedCount-only check reports success while the file never runs.build.ps1— install dependencies before importing them, tolerateRegister-PSRepository -Defaultfailing on Windows, and compose error detail into a singlethrow.CI.yaml— drop the module cache and bound both jobs withtimeout-minutes.Verification
This repo's own CI skips the tests (
template_guard), so it cannot verify this. Instead I rendered the template withInitialize-Template.ps1and ran the result end to end:Tests Passed: 30, Failed: 0·Using Pester 6.1.0· psake succeeded · exit 0AfterAllprobeTests Passed: 31, Failed: 0·Block failed· exit 1No placeholders were left unrendered.
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