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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

ALM with Test Studio and Test Engine

Given that our focus is on testing automation, it’s important to delineate its relationship with DevOps processes. Incorporating automated testing in Azure DevOps pipelines offers several advantages, such as a faster testing process, continuous testing, and streamlined build and deployment. This integration enables the continuous testing, building, and deployment of iterative code changes, helping to catch failures ahead of production and improving overall software quality and productivity.

In this chapter, we will explore how to harness the power of Azure Pipelines to automate the testing of Power Apps. We will see how it can be leveraged to automate the testing of Power Apps applications built using the Microsoft Power Apps Test Studio test that we built in previous chapters.

First, we will set up the infrastructure required for test automation, including GitHub repositories and Azure DevOps. Then, we will create test automation pipelines...