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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

Setting up VS Code

If you are new to extension development with VS Code and the AL language, you might want to practice this first. There are various resources out there, but a very comprehensive one, though not too voluminous, is Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide, by Stefano Demiliani and Duilio Tacconi. Here is a link to the Packt page where you also can order the book: https://www.packtpub.com/business/dynamics-365-business-central-development-quick-start-guide.

Note

There are, of course, various other resources out there that can help you to get up to speed with AL development in VS Code. One of them is this comprehensive video, Best practices in Visual Studio Code development, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u24hyetS30Y, which also is to be found in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1FESh9FqyhQxkZXYYp1X1tTpXf3-9iSR.

VS Code project

In Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide, Stefano Demiliani and Duilio...