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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 13 – VAT Registration No. validation

In this example, we are going to show how the standard VAT registration number validation feature in Business Central could be made testable, enabling us to mimic the validation service. For your convenience, we have duplicated Figure 13.2 here, showing you the basic flow of the VAT registration number validation:

Figure 13.7 – VAT Registration No. validation flow with a test double server

As we are not able to modify the code behind this standard feature, and as the code does not provide the right means to hook into it, we will build a standalone feature that imitates the process, as discussed in Replacing a server with a test double – dependency injection section. This standalone feature allows us to demonstrate how DI could help make an outgoing call testable.

Note

As in the previous example, we will again focus on the structure and code of the automated tests and not on the flow...