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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)
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Part 1:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
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Part 2:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
11
Part 3:Extending Power Apps Automated Testing

Processing and saving test results

When running tests through a browser, you cannot view the test panel that is normally displayed in Test Studio. This can make it difficult to monitor the progress of your tests or determine whether a test has passed or failed.

For instance, by using the play link feature, you can duplicate a link so that you can execute a test in an independent browser beyond Test Studio’s environment. This can be beneficial for integrating your tests into a continuous integration and deployment workflow, such as Azure DevOps. To capture test results beyond Test Studio, you can use the OnTestCaseComplete and OnTestSuiteComplete events to manage and send your test results to multiple data repositories or platforms. These properties are available in the test object and are triggered when a test case or suite is completed.

In these events, we can leverage the TestCaseResult and TestSuiteResult records to access information about specific test cases and the...