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

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Appendix: Getting Up and Running with Business Central, VS Code, and the GitHub Project

Setting up your Business Central environment

While the writing of app and test code is done in VS Code and could be done to a certain extent without a Business Central environment, you always eventually need to deploy it to Business Central. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, right? You want to see that it can be published and installed and, even more, you want to verify that your app code passes the checks your test code has been set up to do.

For development purposes, it's often best to have a local installation of Business Central or one in a VM for your own use. For the test automation worked on in this book, it has to be an on-prem installation – that is, not using the SaaS version – as some of the standard Microsoft test apps and test libraries can only run on-prem. Whether you're using a VM for this or not is of no importance here.

An on-prem installation can either be achieved by installing it from a product DVD or by using BcContainerHelper...