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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

Chapter 7: From Customer Wish to Test Automation – Next Level

In the previous chapter, you built your first basic test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. You looked at three simple examples that show how to apply the Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) test case pattern and our 4-steps recipe to get customer wishes converted into an application and test code. In this chapter, you will use the same methodology to create some more tests that use the same test data setup, that have a comparable structure, and that interact with UI handlers.

The following topics will be covered:

  • Sales documents, customer template, and warehouse shipment
  • Test example 4 – how to set up a shared fixture
  • Test example 5 – how to parameterize tests
  • Test example 6 – how to hand over data to UI handlers