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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

Understanding test data setup design patterns

Goal: Learn the basic patterns for setting up test data.

When you carry out your manual tests, you know that most of the time is consumed by setting up the right data. Being a real IT pro, you will think up ways of doing this as efficiently as possible. You might have thought of making sure of the following:

  • A basic setup of data is available, which will be the foundation for all of the tests you are going to execute
  • For each feature under test, additional test data exists upfront
  • Test specific data will be created on the fly

This way you created yourself a number of patterns that help you efficiently get your test data setup done. These are what we call test data setup design patterns, or fixture or test fixture design patterns, and each has its own name:

  • The first one is what we call a prebuilt fixture. This is test data that...