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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed in a nutshell what the Test Tool is and how to use it to run your tests, or even run the collection of tests Microsoft has built and provided us with. We gave a short overview of the various categories of tests this vast collection contains. We concluded with a brief description of the 70+ libraries containing useful helper functions to support your own test writing.

Now that we have discussed the various test features that exist in Dynamics 365 Business Central, we are ready to go and start designing and coding our own test. We will start in Chapter 4, Test Design, to introduce several design patterns that facilitate easier and consistent test case coding.