Book Image

Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Second Edition

Book Image

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

Chapter 6: From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the Basics

You are technically fully set to start writing tests at this point. This is because you know how the testability framework functions, you know the test toolkit, you know about the existence of the standard test libraries, and you have been provided with various patterns to allow you to design efficient and effective tests.

But what are you going to test? What's your business case? What are the customer wishes you are going to implement? In this chapter, you will start applying the principles and techniques discussed in the previous chapters and will build a number of basic automated tests.

As such, this chapter covers the following topics:

  • From customer wish to test automation
  • Test example 1 – a first headless test
  • Test example 2 – a first positive-negative test
  • Test example 3 – a first UI test
  • Headless versus UI