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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

Why use the standard tests?

Ever since they introduced the testability framework in 2009, Microsoft have been building on their application test collateral. As already pointed out in Chapter 3, The Test Tool and Standard Tests, it contains an immense number of tests. These tests cover the whole standard application, from financial management, sales and purchase, through warehouse and manufacturing, to service management. With every major release or cumulative update, new tests have been and will continue to be added to cover new features and recent bug fixes. Years of work we all can profit from. If your code extends the standard application, what will be the impact of it on the standard application?

You could go about writing your own tests. You could also choose to run the standard tests and see the results. And, of course, in the end, you could do both, as your extension most...