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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

Summary

In this chapter, we paid attention to a number of best practices on how to embed test automation in your daily development practice. Get your functional peers writing ATDD scenarios to make use of the Excel sheet discussed. Do not overload yourself and your team and take small steps. Use the test tool next to your development tools and keep the tests running. Be aware that test code is also code, so maintain it as you maintain your application code. Organize your final application app, and its accompanying test app, in such a way that tests cannot be run in a production environment accidentally. And last but not least, automate parts of your development processes with automated builds that include running your tests.

In the next chapter, Chapter 10, Getting Business Central Standard Tests Working on Your Code, we will have a closer look at the tests provided by Microsoft and how we could also integrate this humongous collateral of standard tests.