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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
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Part 2:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
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Part 3:Extending Power Apps Automated Testing

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the main concepts of the Test Studio tool, which is currently the standard for testing the automation of canvas apps. Using this tool, we reviewed the most relevant concepts related to testing automation, such as test suites, test cases, test assertions, and the limitations that may arise when using them.

We demonstrated the steps required to establish the required environment for developing the examples outlined in this book. Then, we applied this environment to a simple example that involved using a contact gallery to record, customize, and perform a playback in Test Studio.

Finally, we demonstrated how the results of these tests can be saved in a database or file and also sent for processing in external tools and monitored in deployment processes. In the next chapter, we will explore the anticipated evolution of this tool toward a new framework called Test Engine, which will address some of the limitations we have observed in this chapter...