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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816427

Length 406 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Luc van Vugt

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

Testing incoming calls

Connecting from an external system to Business Central has been enabled in Business Central by so-called Web Services and APIs. Where web service, as such, is a very generic term, entailing both Web Services and APIs, Business Central has used it to name their very first implementation of web services after it. Web Services were introduced in Dynamics NAV 2009 and are still available in Business Central. They can either be SOAP- or OData-based. Given a number of limitations of Web Services, however, Microsoft has put in place a new version of web services, which are called APIs and are REST-compliant, a.k.a. RESTful. In his Areopa webinar Working with APIs, Arend-Jan Kauffmann gives a nice introduction to APIs starting with a comparison between Business Central's Web Services and APIs. If APIs are new to you, you can learn more about it with the recording of the aforementioned webinar available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLNMTf7r5k.