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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

TDD and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Now that we have talked about what TDD is, how it works, and what its benefits are, it makes sense to have a look at whether we could approach Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central development with TDD, or in a TDD-ish way. We will start this section with a general question and continue with a small example of how this would work out.

Is TDD in Business Central possible?

In the first edition of this book, I deliberately did not pay attention to TDD in the main part of the book, only to make some notes in the Appendix. I chose to do so as I knew TDD did not always resonate well and, as I wrote then…

…I didn't want anyone getting blocked by their knowledge of TDD, with it being a proven methodology, but also surrounded with skepticism.

I continued with a condensed description of TDD and concluded, relating it to all the examples worked out in the book (see further on in this second edition), that if I would...

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