Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Efficiently automate test cases in Dynamics NAV and Business Central
- 222 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Efficiently automate test cases in Dynamics NAV and Business Central
About This Book
Learn how to write automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central and see how to implement it in your daily work
Key Features
- Leverage automated testing to advance over traditional manual testing methods
- Write, design, and implement automated tests
- Explore various testing frameworks and tools compatible with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Book Description
Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new cloud-based SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. It's not as simple as it used to be way back when it was called Navigator, Navision Financials, or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision. Our development practices are becoming more formal, and with this, the call for test automation is pressing on us.
This book will teach you to leverage testing tools available with Dynamics 365 Business Central to perform automated testing. We'll begin with a quick introduction to automated testing, followed by an overview of test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Then you'll learn to design and build automated tests and we'll go through some efficient methods to get from requirements to application and testing code. Lastly, you'll learn to incorporate your own and Microsoft tests into your daily development practice.
By the end of the book, you'll be able to write your own automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
What you will learn
- Understand what automated tests are, and when and why to use them
- Explore the five pillars of the Testability Framework of Business Central
- Design and write automated tests for Business Central
- Make use of standard automated tests and their helper libraries
- Integrate automated tests into your development practice
Who this book is for
This book is for consultants, testers, developers, and development managers working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central. Being a book on automated testing techniques, it also caters to both functional and technical development teams.
Frequently asked questions
Information
Section 1: Automated Testing - A General Overview
- Chapter 1, Introduction to Automated Testing
Introduction to Automated Testing
"What's up?" I asked.
"Don't you like me anymore?" he responded.
Me: ?
Him: "Don't you like me anymore?"
Me: "Nope, still like you. Why?"
Him: "You rejected my code; don't you like me anymore?"
Me: "Dude, I still like you, but concerning your code, my tests show it somehow useless."
- Reporting the bug would keep me at work and make my wife highly disappointed, to say the least
- Not reporting the bug would get me home on time and save a lot of hassle at home
- Why automated testing?
- When to use automated testing.
- What is automated testing?
Why automated testing?
- Easy to reproduce
- Fast to execute
- Objective in its reporting
Why not?
- Costs are too high and will make us uncompetitive.
- Dynamics 365 Business Central platform does not enable it.
- Customers do the testing, so why should we bother?
- Who's going to write the test code? We already have a hard time finding people.
- Our everyday business does not leave room to add a new discipline.
- There are too many different projects to allow for test automation.
- Microsoft has tests automated, and still, Dynamics 365 Business Central is not bug free.
Why yes?
- Drive testing upstream and save costs
- Dynamics 365 Business Central platform enables test automation
- Relying on customers to do the testing isn't a great idea
- Having a hard time finding peopleāstart automating your tests
- Test automation will free up time for everyday business
- Keep on handling different projects because of test automation
- Automated tests are code too
Drive testing upstream and save costs
Dynamics 365 Business Central platform enables test automation
Relying on customers to do the testing isn't a great idea
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1: Automated Testing - A General Overview
- Introduction to Automated Testing
- Section 2: Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- The Testability Framework
- The Test Tool and Standard Tests
- Section 3: Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Test Design
- From Customer Wish to Test Automation - The Basics
- From Customer Wish to Test Automation - Next Level
- From Customer Wish to Test Automation - And Some More
- Section 4: Integrating Automated Tests in Your Daily Development Practice
- How to Integrate Test Automation in Daily Development Practice
- Getting Business Central Standard Tests Working on Your Code
- Test-Driven Development
- Setting Up VS Code and Using the GitHub Project
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