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Automate Testing for Power Apps

By : César Calvo, Carlos de Huerta
Book Image

Automate Testing for Power Apps

By: César Calvo, Carlos de Huerta

Overview of this book

Low-code testing helps build better applications, freeing developers from frustrating problems faced while enhancing app features. Automate Testing for Power Apps will help you use automation testing to build better Canvas apps. You’ll start by understanding the fundamentals of automation testing, different approaches for low-code testing, and its application to Power Apps. Next, you’ll learn how to use Test Studio, Power Automate Desktop, and other tools to automate testing for your Canvas apps. You'll find out how to incorporate testing into your deployment processes for faster and more reliable releases. Additionally, this book covers advanced topics such as PCF components testing and model-driven apps. You’ll discover the new open-source project, Power Apps Test Engine, that’ll provide you with a single automated testing platform for all Power Apps. You'll learn how to test these more complex components to ensure the highest quality and business value for your Power Apps. By the end of this book, you'll have become a pro at using automation testing to build better Power Apps, reduce app release times, and increase the quality of your applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
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Part 2:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
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Part 3:Extending Power Apps Automated Testing

Technical requirements

Access to a functioning Power Platform environment is necessary to follow the example that we will describe in this chapter. The Power Platform developer environment that we explained how to create in Chapter 5 appears to be the most suitable solution for this purpose.

Additionally, ensure that your system meets the minimum hardware requirements for PAD (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/requirements).

While a Power Automate trial is not strictly necessary for the features that we will explain in this chapter, if you’re interested in exploring more advanced features or capabilities, you may consider signing up for a trial.

We will utilize both a canvas app with a calculator provided in the Test Engine GitHub repository (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerApps-TestEngine/tree/main/samples/calculator) and a simple model-driven app created from the Contacts table we used in Chapter 5, where demo data was imported. For...