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.Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By : Luc van Vugt
Book Image

.Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By: Luc van Vugt

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new cloud-based SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. It’s not as simple as it used to be way back when it was called Navigator, Navision Financials, or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision. Our development practices are becoming more formal, and with this, the call for test automation is pressing on us. This book will teach you to leverage testing tools available with Dynamics 365 Business Central to perform automated testing. We’ll begin with a quick introduction to automated testing, followed by an overview of test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Then you’ll learn to design and build automated tests and we’ll go through some efficient methods to get from requirements to application and testing code. Lastly, you’ll learn to incorporate your own and Microsoft tests into your daily development practice. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to write your own automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Automated Testing - A General Overview
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Section 2: Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
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Section 3: Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
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Section 4: Integrating Automated Tests in Your Daily Development Practice

How to Integrate Test Automation in Daily Development Practice

You've got this far into this book, so by now you have a clear notion on the needs for and benefits of test automation for Dynamics 365 Business Central. You have also already exercised designing and writing tests based on Section 3, Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The next step is to bring into practice what you have learned.

But from reading the book, and understanding the matters discussed, and working on your first exercises, making it part of your daily work might still be a threshold to take. As mentioned earlier, test automation is a team effort. Therefore, in this chapter, we will elaborate on a number of best practices that might turn out to be beneficial for you and your team in getting test automation working:

  • Casting the customer wish into ATDD scenarios...