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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

Technical requirements

Like in the previous chapter, we will refer to the LookupValue extension. You can find its code on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Automated-Testing-in-Microsoft-Dynamics-365-Business-Central-Second-Edition.

In this chapter, we will continue with the code from Chapter 8, From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the TDD way: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Automated-Testing-in-Microsoft-Dynamics-365-Business-Central-Second-Edition/tree/main/Chapter 08 (LookupValue Extension).

The final code for this chapter can be found in https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Automated-Testing-in-Microsoft-Dynamics-365-Business-Central-Second-Edition/tree/main/Chapter 09 (LookupValue Extension).

Details on how to use this repository and how to set up VS Code are discussed in Appendix, Getting Up and Running with Business Central, VS Code, and the GitHub Project.