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

Sales documents, customer template, and warehouse shipment

With the three examples in Chapter 6, From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the Basics, we added the Lookup Value Code field to the Customer table. However, that's just a part of the customer wish as it clearly describes that:

"… this field has to be carried over to the whole bunch of sales documents and, at the same time, it needs to be included in the warehouse shipping."

So, before we dive into the following test examples, a note needs to be made that parallel to the implementation of the Lookup Value Code field on the Customer table, the same field has to be implemented on the Sales Header table, the Customer Template table, the Warehouse Shipment Line table, and all related pages. The ATDD test case descriptions are very much alike, and this will be the same for the application and test code. Copy and paste – the great virtue of any Business Central developer.

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