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Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Second Edition

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Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. With development practices becoming more formal, implementing changes or new features is not as simple as it used to be back when Dynamics 365 Business Central was called Navigator, Navision Financials, or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision, and the call for test automation is increasing. This book will show you how to leverage the testing tools available in Dynamics 365 Business Central to perform automated testing. Starting with a quick introduction to automated testing and test-driven development (TDD), you'll get an overview of test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. You'll then learn how to design and build automated tests and explore methods to progress from requirements to application and testing code. Next, you'll find out how you can incorporate your own as well as Microsoft tests into your development practice. With the addition of three new chapters, this second edition covers in detail how to construct complex scenarios, write testable code, and test processes with incoming and outgoing calls. By the end of this book, you'll be able to write your own automated tests for Microsoft Business Central.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Automated Testing – A General Overview
4
Section 2:Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
7
Section 3:Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
12
Section 4:Integrating Automated Tests in Your Daily Development Practice
15
Section 5:Advanced Topics
19
Section 6:Appendix

Sales documents, customer template, and warehouse shipment

With the three examples in Chapter 6, From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the Basics, we added the Lookup Value Code field to the Customer table. However, that's just a part of the customer wish as it clearly describes that:

"… this field has to be carried over to the whole bunch of sales documents and, at the same time, it needs to be included in the warehouse shipping."

So, before we dive into the following test examples, a note needs to be made that parallel to the implementation of the Lookup Value Code field on the Customer table, the same field has to be implemented on the Sales Header table, the Customer Template table, the Warehouse Shipment Line table, and all related pages. The ATDD test case descriptions are very much alike, and this will be the same for the application and test code. Copy and paste – the great virtue of any Business Central developer.

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