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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

Summary

In this chapter, we dove deep into the practical usage of Test Engine. We started with a recap of the prerequisites and build process required to create the Test Engine executable on your local machine, as covered in the previous chapter. Then, we walked through a detailed hands-on guide on how to use Test Engine to test Power Apps based on sample apps and test plans from its GitHub repository.

The chapter covered how to import sample solutions into your Power Apps environment, execute test plans, inspect test run results and recordings, author new test plans in YAML, and reuse existing Test Studio assets. We also discussed the technical requirements and steps to run the first test with Test Engine using a sample app from the GitHub repository.

We provided a comprehensive explanation of how to import the solution and the initial requirements, create a configuration file, set environment variables, and understand the YAML file structure. We covered how to run the test...