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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

Standard tests

Goal: Get to know the basics of the standard tests provided by Microsoft.

Ever since NAV 2016, Microsoft made their own application test collateral a part of the product. A humongous set of tests is delivered as a .fob file on the product DVD, in the TestToolKit folder, and in the Docker images. Indeed, the tests haven't been delivered as an extension yet.

The standard test suite does contain mainly test codeunits. But there are also a number of supporting table, page, report, and XMLport objects in the .fob file.

For Dynamics 365 Business Central, the whole set contains almost 23,000 tests in more than 700 test codeunits, for w1 and local functionality for each country in which Microsoft releases. And with every bug that's fixed and with every new feature introduced in the application, the number of tests is growing. It has been built over the last...