PSMutant

0.9.2

Mutation testing for PowerShell. Injects small faults (flip -eq to -ne, $true to $false, N to N+1, drop -not) into your scripts using the PowerShell AST and reports how many your Pester suite catches - the metric line coverage cannot give you. Runs mutants in a throwaway sandbox so your source is never modified. Requires Pester 5.2.0 or later AT RUN TIME, and delibera
Mutation testing for PowerShell. Injects small faults (flip -eq to -ne, $true to $false, N to N+1, drop -not) into your scripts using the PowerShell AST and reports how many your Pester suite catches - the metric line coverage cannot give you. Runs mutants in a throwaway sandbox so your source is never modified. Requires Pester 5.2.0 or later AT RUN TIME, and deliberately does not declare it as a RequiredModule: PSMutant runs under whichever Pester >= 5.2.0 you have loaded rather than importing one for you. Install Pester yourself if you do not already have it.
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Minimum PowerShell version

7.0

Installation Options

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using PowerShellGet More Info

Install-Module -Name PSMutant

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet More Info

Install-PSResource -Name PSMutant

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Owners

Copyright

(c) Fortigi. MIT licensed.

Package Details

Author(s)

  • Fortigi

Tags

mutation-testing testing pester ast quality test-quality coverage

Functions

Invoke-PSMutation

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

PSMutant 0.9.2

- A suite that passes under Invoke-Pester now passes PSMutant's baseline too.
- A test file that requires a version of Pester is run, not scored as a kill.

Full release notes: https://github.com/Fortigi/PSMutant/releases/tag/v0.9.2

FileList

Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
0.9.2 (current version) 20 11/9/2026
0.9.1 38 10/26/2026
0.9.0 29 10/23/2026
0.8.0 24 10/19/2026
0.7.0 28 10/16/2026
0.6.0 36 10/10/2026
0.5.0 237 9/1/2026
0.4.0 14 8/28/2026
0.3.2 27 8/23/2026
0.3.1 28 8/21/2026
0.2.2 11 8/18/2026
0.2.1 8 8/18/2026
0.2.0 12 8/17/2026
0.1.0 94 7/3/2026
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