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Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

You're reading from   Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Efficiently automate test cases for faster development cycles with less time needed for manual testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816427
Length 406 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Automated Testing – A General Overview
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Automated Testing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Test Automation and Test-Driven Development 4. Section 2:Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
5. Chapter 3: The Testability Framework 6. Chapter 4: The Test Tools, Standard Tests, and Standard Test Libraries 7. Section 3:Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
8. Chapter 5: Test Plan and Test Design 9. Chapter 6: From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the Basics 10. Chapter 7: From Customer Wish to Test Automation – Next Level 11. Chapter 8: From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the TDD way 12. Section 4:Integrating Automated Tests in Your Daily Development Practice
13. Chapter 9: How to Integrate Test Automation in Daily Development Practice 14. Chapter 10: Getting Business Central Standard Tests Working on Your Code 15. Section 5:Advanced Topics
16. Chapter 11: How to Construct Complex Scenarios 17. Chapter 12: Writing Testable Code 18. Chapter 13: Testing Incoming and Outgoing Calls 19. Section 6:Appendix
20. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Getting Up and Running with Business Central, VS Code, and the GitHub Project

Executing standard tests against your code

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so you can go and verify it by following these steps:

  1. Deploy the solution we built and tested in Section 3, Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, to Business Central.
  2. Deploy all standard test extensions and test libraries – see Getting standard test and test library apps deployed in Appendix, Getting Up and Running with Business Central, VS Code, and the GitHub Project.
  3. Set up a test suite in the test tool with all present test codeunits, as discussed in Chapter 4, The Test Tools, Standard Tests, and Standard Test Libraries.
  4. Run all the tests.

This worked pretty fine on C/SIDE-based versions, but unfortunately, moving forward to newer versions that are AL-based with more and more tests added, the standard test collateral showed to be unstable to some extent. While a standard test run on a NAV 2018 CRONUS, demo company...

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