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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

Testing incoming calls

Connecting from an external system to Business Central has been enabled in Business Central by so-called Web Services and APIs. Where web service, as such, is a very generic term, entailing both Web Services and APIs, Business Central has used it to name their very first implementation of web services after it. Web Services were introduced in Dynamics NAV 2009 and are still available in Business Central. They can either be SOAP- or OData-based. Given a number of limitations of Web Services, however, Microsoft has put in place a new version of web services, which are called APIs and are REST-compliant, a.k.a. RESTful. In his Areopa webinar Working with APIs, Arend-Jan Kauffmann gives a nice introduction to APIs starting with a comparison between Business Central's Web Services and APIs. If APIs are new to you, you can learn more about it with the recording of the aforementioned webinar available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLNMTf7r5k.

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