Standard tests

Goal: Get to know the basics of the standard tests provided by Microsoft.

Ever since NAV 2016, Microsoft has made its own application test collateral a part of the product. A humongous set of tests was initially delivered as a .fob file on the product DVD. Since Business Central is fully extension based, these tests, aka standard tests, are delivered in over 30 extensions. These standard test apps mainly contain test codeunits, but there are also a number of supporting tables, pages, reports, and XMLport objects in them.

For Dynamics 365 Business Central, the whole set contains over 36,000 tests in over 1,400 test codeunits, for w1 and local functionality for each country in which Microsoft releases. With every bug that's fixed, and with every new feature introduced in the application, the number of tests grows. The standard tests have been built over the last ten-plus years, and they cover all functional areas of Business Central.

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