Prerequisites and build process of Test Engine

In the next chapter, we will guide you through the process of using Test Engine with the app developed in Chapter 5 or with the sample projects available for download on GitHub. Before diving into the testing process, however, it’s important to ensure that all necessary prerequisites are met and that the executable is properly generated.

To begin, we will start by either cloning or downloading the project from GitHub. From there, we will walk you through the process of checking for prerequisites and generating the executable, before diving into the testing process itself.

Note

We assume that you already have cloned or downloaded the Power Apps Test Engine repository (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerApps-TestEngine) from Chapter 5.

To use the Test Engine binary, we need to compile the code contained in this repository. We will describe how to do this in the next sections. While we’ve already mentioned the alternative...