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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

Improving and validating your app

As mentioned in Chapter 1, one of the most active groups at Microsoft for building tools and publishing best practices is the Power Customer Advisory Team (CAT). They create many community-based open source tools. One that is specifically interesting in this context is the Power Apps Code Review Tool.

With its customizable checklist of best practices, a 360-degree view of app checker results, app settings, and a free search code/formula viewer, the Code Review Tool enables more efficient app reviews. The checklist consists of various patterns to examine in your app, and whether it meets the specified criteria or not. You can also provide comments for the app creator’s consideration or explore further information about the pattern. We will take a closer look at this in the next few sections.

Before you publish and go live with your app, you should use available tools such as the solution checker or the patterns from the Code Review Tool...