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.Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By : Luc van Vugt
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.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.

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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Section 1: Automated Testing - A General Overview
Section 1: Automated Testing - A General Overview
2
Introduction to Automated Testing
Introduction to Automated Testing
Why automated testing?
When to use automated testing
What is automated testing?
Summary
3
Section 2: Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Section 2: Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
4
The Testability Framework
The Testability Framework
The five pillars of the testability framework
Summary
5
The Test Tool and Standard Tests
The Test Tool and Standard Tests
Test Tool
Standard tests
Standard libraries
Summary
6
Section 3: Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Section 3: Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7
Test Design
Test Design
No design, no test
Understanding test case design patterns
Understanding test data setup design patterns
Using customer wish as test design
Summary
8
From Customer Wish to Test Automation - The Basics
From Customer Wish to Test Automation - The Basics
From customer wish to test automation
Test example 1 – a first headless test
Test example 2 – a first positive-negative test
Test example 3 – a first UI test
Headless versus UI
Summary
9
From Customer Wish to Test Automation - Next Level
From Customer Wish to Test Automation - Next Level
Sales documents, customer template, and warehouse shipment
Test example 4 – how to set up a shared fixture
Test example 5 – how to parametrize tests
Test example 6 – how to hand over data to UI handlers
Summary
10
From Customer Wish to Test Automation - And Some More
From Customer Wish to Test Automation - And Some More
Test example 7 – how to test a report
Test example 8 – how to construct an extensive scenario
Refactoring
Summary
11
Section 4: Integrating Automated Tests in Your Daily Development Practice
Section 4: Integrating Automated Tests in Your Daily Development Practice
12
How to Integrate Test Automation in Daily Development Practice
How to Integrate Test Automation in Daily Development Practice
Casting the customer wish into ATDD scenarios
Taking small steps
Making the test tool your friend
Integrating with daily build
Maintaining your test code
Summary
13
Getting Business Central Standard Tests Working on Your Code
Getting Business Central Standard Tests Working on Your Code
Why use the standard tests?
Executing standard test
Fixing failing standard tests
It's all about data
Making your code testable
Is it all really about data?
Summary
14
Test-Driven Development
Test-Driven Development
TDD, a short description
TDD, red-green-refactor
TDD and our test examples
Summary
15
Setting Up VS Code and Using the GitHub Project
Setting Up VS Code and Using the GitHub Project
VS Code and AL development
The GitHub repository
Notes on the AL code
16
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The Test Tool and Standard Tests

Ever since NAV 2009 SP1, providing automated tests has been a major part of Microsoft's work on the application. Using the testability framework, they have created the following:

  • A humongous set of automated tests to verify the standard application
  • A Test Tool feature, that has become part of the standard application
  • A vast number of test helper libraries

In this chapter, we will discuss all three matters in more details.

Note that each of these is provided by Microsoft as a separate component; that is, a .fob, on the product DVD and in the Docker images from NAV 2016 and up.

The Test Tool is also present in Business Central online, but you will only be able to fetch tests for the extensions that reside in CRONUS, not for the standard application. To get yourself a free trial, visit: https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/business-central...

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