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

TDD and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Now that we have talked about what TDD is, how it works, and what its benefits are, it makes sense to have a look at whether we could approach Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central development with TDD, or in a TDD-ish way. We will start this section with a general question and continue with a small example of how this would work out.

Is TDD in Business Central possible?

In the first edition of this book, I deliberately did not pay attention to TDD in the main part of the book, only to make some notes in the Appendix. I chose to do so as I knew TDD did not always resonate well and, as I wrote then…

…I didn't want anyone getting blocked by their knowledge of TDD, with it being a proven methodology, but also surrounded with skepticism.

I continued with a condensed description of TDD and concluded, relating it to all the examples worked out in the book (see further on in this second edition), that if I would...