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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

Understanding the benefits of Test Engine

Among the many benefits, we will highlight the following:

  • Making mock responses for connectors
  • The Screenshot function
  • Video recording

We will also see a short comparison between the different current possibilities of performing interface test automation in Power Apps, comparing Test Studio with Test Engine and Playwright, which is the engine on which Test Engine is based.

Connector mocking

Test Engine permits defining mock responses for connectors, enabling the evaluation of Power Apps in isolation from the external APIs it connects with.

This functionality can be advantageous while examining applications that access endpoints with side effects, allowing full unit testing—for example, calling an API to perform some operations in certain records. The mock responses are defined using the NetworkRequestMocks property, which includes the following fields: requestURL, responseDataFile, Method, Headers, and...