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Automate Testing for Power Apps

You're reading from   Automate Testing for Power Apps A practical guide to applying low-code automation testing tools and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236551
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
2. Chapter 1: Software Quality and Types of Testing FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Power Apps Studio Techniques and Automation Tools 4. Chapter 3: Power Fx Overview and Usage in Testing 5. Chapter 4: Planning Testing in a Power Apps Project 6. Part 2:Tools for Power Apps Automated Testing
7. Chapter 5: Introducing Test Studio – Canvas Apps Testing with a Sample Case Study 8. Chapter 6: Overview of Test Engine, Evolution, and Comparison 9. Chapter 7: Working with Test Engine 10. Chapter 8: Testing Power Apps with Power Automate Desktop 11. Part 3:Extending Power Apps Automated Testing
12. Chapter 9: PCF and Canvas Component Testing 13. Chapter 10: ALM with Test Studio and Test Engine 14. Chapter 11: Mocks with Test Engine 15. Chapter 12: Telemetry and Power Apps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running tests and accessing results

To start testing, we need to open Command Prompt, change to the directory where the TestEngine GitHub repository was downloaded, and locate the src folder. Go into the PowerAppsTestEngine folder with the project that we want to run.

The key steps are as follows:

  1. Open Command Prompt.
  2. Navigate to <downloaded_repo_path>\src\PowerAppsTestEngine.
  3. Run the PowerAppsTestEngine project.
Figure 7.8 – Folder of the TestEngine project

Figure 7.8 – Folder of the TestEngine project

This is the same folder in which we should have the config.dev.json file, as described in the initial requirements section. Note that in this file, we are specifying different folders to locate the test file and the output directory, in addition to the tenant ID and environment ID of the app.

Take note of the output directory you have specified, as we will inspect this folder after the test run.

Now, let’s initiate the test execution. In our case, we...

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