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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

Chapter 11: How to Construct Complex Scenarios

Whereas the examples in Section 3, Designing and Building Automated Test for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, covered the main, one-fold principles of an automated test using the ATDD format, this chapter shows you how to go about complex scenarios.

To achieve your goals as an end-user in Dynamics 365 Business Central, being the ERP package it is, you often end up exercising a substantial chain of consecutive actions. Say you need to test applying a payment to a posted invoice. In order to run this process, a number of related things need to happen first. You have to create a customer, create an item, create and post the invoice, and create and post the payment. And eventually, verify all relevant results.

How do you go about constructing a suite of tests for that? How to create reusable parts? And how to make use of already existing helper functions in the Microsoft test libraries?

In this chapter, we will get answers...

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