TestsRunningInCleanRunspace.Tests.ps1

function Invoke-PesterInJob ($ScriptBlock)
{
    #TODO: there must be a safer way to determine this while I am in describe
    $PesterPath = Get-Module -Name Pester | Select -First 1 -ExpandProperty Path

    $job = Start-Job {
        param ($PesterPath, $TestDrive, $ScriptBlock)
        Import-Module $PesterPath -Force | Out-Null
        $ScriptBlock | Set-Content $TestDrive\Temp.Tests.ps1 | Out-Null

        Invoke-Pester -PassThru -Path $TestDrive

    } -ArgumentList  $PesterPath, $TestDrive, $ScriptBlock
    $job | Wait-Job | Out-Null

    #not using Recieve-Job to ignore any output to Host
    #TODO: how should this handle errors?
    #$job.Error | foreach { throw $_.Exception  }
    $job.Output
    $job.ChildJobs| foreach {
        $childJob = $_
        #$childJob.Error | foreach { throw $_.Exception }
        $childJob.Output
    }
    $job | Remove-Job
}

Describe "Tests running in clean runspace" {
    It "It - Skip and Pending tests" {
        #tests to be run in different runspace using different Pester instance
        $TestSuite = {
            Describe 'It - Skip and Pending tests' {

                It "Skip without ScriptBlock" -skip
                It "Skip with empty ScriptBlock" -skip {}
                It "Skip with not empty ScriptBlock" -Skip {"something"}

                It "Implicit pending" {}
                It "Pending without ScriptBlock" -Pending
                It "Pending with empty ScriptBlock" -Pending {}
                It "Pending with not empty ScriptBlock" -Pending {"something"}
            }
        }

        $result = Invoke-PesterInJob -ScriptBlock $TestSuite
        $result.SkippedCount | Should Be 3
        $result.PendingCount | Should Be 4
        $result.TotalCount | Should Be 7
    }

    It "It - It without ScriptBlock fails" {
        #tests to be run in different runspace using different Pester instance
        $TestSuite = {
            Describe 'It without ScriptBlock fails' {
               It "Fails whole describe"
               It "is not run" { "but it would pass if it was run" }

            }
        }

        $result = Invoke-PesterInJob -ScriptBlock $TestSuite
        $result.PassedCount | Should Be 0
        $result.FailedCount | Should Be 1

        $result.TotalCount | Should Be 1
    }

    It "Invoke-Pester - PassThru output" {
        #tests to be run in different runspace using different Pester instance
        $TestSuite = {
            Describe 'PassThru output' {
               it "Passes" { "pass" }
               it "fails" { throw }
               it "Skipped" -Skip {}
               it "Pending" -Pending {}
            }
        }

        $result = Invoke-PesterInJob -ScriptBlock $TestSuite
        $result.PassedCount | Should Be 1
        $result.FailedCount | Should Be 1
        $result.SkippedCount | Should Be 1
        $result.PendingCount | Should Be 1

        $result.TotalCount | Should Be 4
    }
}