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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

Importing a sample solution

Let’s start with our actual hands-on work with Test Engine. For that, we are going to use one of the samples provided in the TestEngine GitHub repository (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerApps-TestEngine).

For now, we are going to use the basic gallery sample located in the GitHub repository. You can find the solution to import in the samples folder, and inside there is a ZIP file named basic_gallery.zip that we need to import into our environment in order to follow the steps for the initial basic test.

To import the solution into our environment, we will go to https://make.powerapps.com, and then, from there, access the Solutions section from the left-hand navigation.

Once we are in the Solutions section, we can use the Import solution button to browse and import the ZIP file located in the samples/basicgallery folder. In Figure 7.1, we can check the imports screen in Power Apps Studio.

Figure 7.1 – Importing the BasicGallery solution

Figure 7.1 – Importing...