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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

Refactoring

In this chapter, and actually the whole of section 3, we discussed various aspects of designing and coding automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central. We talked about and applied best practices, such as reusability, readability, and minimalism, but we did not apply it to the full extent. You might recall that at a couple of spots it was mentioned that some code part smells like duplication. This typically was a hint to refactor this code to make it reusable. We're not going to act on it within the confinement of this book. But the completed code that you can find on GitHub has been refactored resulting, among others, in the creation of two libraries with reusable helper methods. It also includes all scenarios that complete the full customer wish, as discussed at the start of Chapter 5, From Customer Wish to Test Automation - The Basics, but they have not...