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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

To follow the examples in this book, you must publish any application shared before in the book, or one of your own, and use it so that it has activity. For the Application Insights section, you need an Azure subscription to configure the service.

Access to a functioning Power Platform environment is necessary in order to install the provided examples or create new ones. The Power Platform developer environment appears to be the most suitable solution for this purpose. In previous chapters, you will see steps about how to obtain access to such an environment.

We will utilize two platforms:

  • Power Platform admin center: If you set up a developer environment, you will have an account with administrator permissions. On the other hand, Power Apps analytics at the app level was described in the previous chapter. Here, we will focus on the admin center. Two of the analytics services need this access level:
    • Power Apps analytics
    • Dataverse analytics
  • Application...