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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

Chapter 2: Test Automation and Test-Driven Development

It's not uncommon when people talk about test automation (TA) that the term Test-Driven Development (TDD) is uttered in the same breath. And quite often they are used seemingly as synonyms:

But does that make sense?

In this chapter, we will first investigate how one relates to the other and whether they are in fact equal, followed by a more detailed description of what TDD is. After a short discussion on the benefits, we will illustrate how TDD could be applied in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central development. After that, we will discuss to what extent TDD comes into play when you go down the road of test automation.

This chapter covers the following main topics:

  • TA versus TDD
  • What is TDD?
  • TDD – taking small steps
  • TDD – the benefits
  • TDD and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • TDD – inside-out or outside-in

Where in the previous chapter we talked about...