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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

Technical requirements

The examples in this chapter are ordered based on their complexity and requirements, so the first example has fewer requirements and is easier to run, and complexity grows throughout the following examples. All examples can be run with minimal requirements, but to validate the full experience – that is, to check the running mock service and then the real service example – we recommend you try one with full requirements. To follow the examples in this chapter, you must download the corresponding files from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Automate-Testing-for-Power-Apps/tree/main/chapter-11 and follow its instructions. We will utilize three samples with the same app, available at the root of the repo, called PowerParse_1_0_0_0.zip; the examples are as follows:

  • SharePoint and Dataverse services, used in the app, are provided for this chapter. Download the testplans.zip file from the repo, and use files from the SharePoint...