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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

Automating tests built in Test Studio with Azure Pipelines

In this section, we will cover the necessary steps to enable the Power Apps Test Studio pipeline in an Azure DevOps environment using both the classic editor and the new YAML approach. We will assume that you have already set up an Azure DevOps environment, as mentioned in the previous section, and have tests prepared in Test Studio, as covered in Chapter 6 of this book.

We will begin with the common steps required for both the classic and YAML pipelines, then move on to the specific steps for each.

Before you start, it is necessary to complete the following steps – we’ll delve into these steps in detail later on:

  1. Fork the Microsoft/PowerAppsTestAutomation project on GitHub (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerAppsTestAutomation). As we will discuss later, there have been changes to the Power Apps home page that may cause errors when using the original project. As we are creating a fork of this open...