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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
6
Part 2:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
11
Part 3:Extending Power Apps Automated Testing

A step-by-step guide to creating a desktop flow for testing a model-driven app and a canvas app

As previously discussed, one of the significant advantages of using PAD for automated testing is its adaptability to nearly any user interface, given that we’re simulating user interactions. For this reason, in this section, it will be worth examining how we can tailor the browser action within PAD to test both model-driven apps and canvas apps.

Let’s begin by creating a sample model-driven app that utilizes the Contact table, where we have already imported some records as per Chapter 5. We’ll then proceed with the necessary steps to test this app and an example canvas app.

Creating a simple model-driven app

To test the model-driven app aspect, let’s begin by creating a basic model-driven app.

To proceed, we will navigate to our environment at make.powerapps.com and select the Tables tab. Here, we will locate the Contact table, which we imported some...