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

Chapter 3: The Testability Framework

Having discussed the why, when, what, and a first, general how of test automation, it's time to turn our focus fully to Business Central. In this chapter, we will discuss how Business Central facilitates you to write and execute automated tests. The specific feature that enables this is called the testability framework.

The testability framework was introduced in the platform with Dynamics NAV 2009 Service Pack 1. For the first time, developers were able to build test scripts in C/AL code and run them in the client. At that time, however, you could only program headless tests; that is, tests that do not use the user interface (UI) to trigger the business logic. The testability framework was a follow-up to an internal tool called the NAV Test Framework (NTF) and had been used and worked on for a couple of years already.

NTF allowed tests to be programmed in C# and ran against the Dynamics NAV UI. It was a neat system, with a neat technical...