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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

Standard tests

Goal: Get to know the basics of the standard tests provided by Microsoft.

Ever since NAV 2016, Microsoft has made its own application test collateral a part of the product. A humongous set of tests was initially delivered as a .fob file on the product DVD. Since Business Central is fully extension based, these tests, aka standard tests, are delivered in over 30 extensions. These standard test apps mainly contain test codeunits, but there are also a number of supporting tables, pages, reports, and XMLport objects in them.

For Dynamics 365 Business Central, the whole set contains over 36,000 tests in over 1,400 test codeunits, for w1 and local functionality for each country in which Microsoft releases. With every bug that's fixed, and with every new feature introduced in the application, the number of tests grows. The standard tests have been built over the last ten-plus years, and they cover all functional areas of Business Central.

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