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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, you learned first how to test incoming calls, that is, how to test your own APIs, and secondly, how to test outgoing calls, that is, how to enable the usage of test doubles by means of dependency injection (DI) enabling in your code.

With this chapter, the book has come to an end. But your journey into test automation might have just started. To me, every time it's still fun to pick up. It enables me to go astray in my application code, finding the results of my test pulling me back. It allows me to refactor my code at any time. It also enables me to reflect on the quality of the code more easily because it can be changed and instantly checked. I could go on with my praising and more or less redo the first chapter of this book but I won't, as it is time to conclude for now. I hope you enjoyed reading and practicing with me as much as I did while writing.