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.Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Efficiently automate test cases in Dynamics NAV and Business Central

Luc van Vugt

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5 (2 Ratings)

Paperback Apr 2019 222 pages 1st Edition

Luc van Vugt

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5 (2 Ratings)

Paperback Apr 2019 222 pages 1st Edition

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Key benefits

Leverage automated testing to advance over traditional manual testing methods
Write, design, and implement automated tests
Explore various testing frameworks and tools compatible with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Description

Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new cloud-based SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. It’s not as simple as it used to be way back when it was called Navigator, Navision Financials, or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision. Our development practices are becoming more formal, and with this, the call for test automation is pressing on us. This book will teach you to leverage testing tools available with Dynamics 365 Business Central to perform automated testing. We’ll begin with a quick introduction to automated testing, followed by an overview of test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Then you’ll learn to design and build automated tests and we’ll go through some efficient methods to get from requirements to application and testing code. Lastly, you’ll learn to incorporate your own and Microsoft tests into your daily development practice. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to write your own automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Who is this book for?

This book is for consultants, testers, developers, and development managers working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central. Being a book on automated testing techniques, it also caters to both functional and technical development teams.

What you will learn

Understand what automated tests are, and when and why to use them
Explore the five pillars of the Testability Framework of Business Central
Design and write automated tests for Business Central
Make use of standard automated tests and their helper libraries
Integrate automated tests into your development practice

Product Details

Publication date, Length, Edition, Language, ISBN-13

Publication date : Apr 30, 2019

Length: 222 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781789804935

Vendor :

Google

Category :

Business & Other

Languages :

Python

Concepts :

Enterprise Resource Planning

Tools :

Dynamics 365

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Product Details

Publication date : Apr 30, 2019

Length: 222 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781789804935

Vendor :

Google

Category :

Business & Other

Languages :

Python

Concepts :

Enterprise Resource Planning

Tools :

Dynamics 365

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16 Chapters

Section 1: Automated Testing - A General Overview

Introduction to Automated Testing

Why automated testing?

When to use automated testing

What is automated testing?

Summary

Section 2: Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

The Testability Framework

The five pillars of the testability framework

Summary

The Test Tool and Standard Tests

Section 3: Designing and Building Automated Tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Test Design

No design, no test

Understanding test case design patterns

Understanding test data setup design patterns

Using customer wish as test design

Summary

From Customer Wish to Test Automation - The Basics

From customer wish to test automation

Test example 1 – a first headless test

Test example 2 – a first positive-negative test

Test example 3 – a first UI test

Headless versus UI

Summary

From Customer Wish to Test Automation - Next Level

Sales documents, customer template, and warehouse shipment

Test example 4 – how to set up a shared fixture

Test example 5 – how to parametrize tests

Test example 6 – how to hand over data to UI handlers

Summary

From Customer Wish to Test Automation - And Some More

Test example 7 – how to test a report

Test example 8 – how to construct an extensive scenario

Refactoring

Summary

Section 4: Integrating Automated Tests in Your Daily Development Practice

How to Integrate Test Automation in Daily Development Practice

Casting the customer wish into ATDD scenarios

Taking small steps

Making the test tool your friend

Integrating with daily build

Maintaining your test code

Summary

Getting Business Central Standard Tests Working on Your Code

Why use the standard tests?

Executing standard test

Fixing failing standard tests

It's all about data

Making your code testable

Is it all really about data?

Summary

Test-Driven Development

TDD, a short description

TDD, red-green-refactor

TDD and our test examples

Summary

Setting Up VS Code and Using the GitHub Project

VS Code and AL development

The GitHub repository

Notes on the AL code

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Daniel Rimmelzwaan Feb 22, 2020

It's fitting that Luc wrote 'the book' on automated testing, since he's been teaching about testing for many years. As you read this book, you will start to realize that because testing is an integral part of the development process, and because Business Central provides us with the tools to automate it, it is a small step to make test development a mandatory part of your BC development.Clear explanations, clear exercises, with real world application of decades of experience. This book is a MUST read for all #MSDyn365BC developers.By the way, the 1 star review on the Packt website was about the ordering/delivery process, not the book itself.

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Bartel de Leeuw Feb 24, 2020

I knew next to nothing about automated testing before I started on this book, and I needed to create a test project for the AppSource Marketplace. This book made it easy to complete the project, and I came away with an appreciation for the power of automated testing as well. Clearly written, with lots of examples. Thanks, Luc!

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About the author

Luc van Vugt

In 1999, Luc van Vugt stepped into the Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC) world, training many developers. After Microsoft acquired Navision, he joined their Dynamics localization team as tester and project lead, 6 years closely involved with all BC releases. Since he left MS, he became an active community member with his blog, Dutch Dynamics Community and as conference speaker. He co-founded NAV Skills, supporting BC pros with workshops and webinars until 2019. He continues ever since with webinars under the flag of Areopa. For all this work, Luc has been awarded MS MVP since 2011. In 2012, he started fluxxus.nl mainly focusing on BC development courses and workshops on test automation, on the latter a main driving force in the community.

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