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

What is testable code?

Almost two decades ago, in 2002, Microsoft acquired the Danish company Navision A/S, at that time a relatively recent merger of Navision Software A/S and Damgaard A/S. You could say that with this acquisition my testing journey started, because – after I rounded off my previous role as a technical trainer at the Dutch Navision Academy – I joined the former Dynamics NAV Global Development Localization (GDL) team at Microsoft as an application tester and documenter. Early 2005, I was taking part in two Microsoft internal, so-called, Engineering Excellence courses; one for new Software Engineers and one for Test Leads. It was a great experience, not in the least due to the enthusiasm and great experience of our trainer Tracy Monteith (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-monteith-021868115/). There are many things I owe to him, but one of the most prominent things that has stuck with me ever since is the notion of testable code. I can still recall a certain...