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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

Test example 9 – how to test with permissions

When implementing the customer wish, the focus is on getting the resulting new functionality working, irrespective of if you go down the test first road or not. With testing, we verify if this new functionality is working as intended. This does, however, not necessarily mean that all Business Central users will be able to operate this new functionality as this also depends on the permission sets that have been assigned to them.

As you might know, the most basic level at which we define permissions is the table data level. When introducing a new table in your extension, like the Lookup Value table in the LookupValue extension, you also need to provide at least one permission set that defines the access to the table data. And like with any feature you provide; you should also test whether the permission set works right. How to do this that's what this test example is about.

In order to enable a user to access the data in...