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

It's all about data

In my experience, getting the standard tests working on your code is mainly about getting the test fixture right, as in the previous exercise. Fixing the error by supplementing the fixture isn't a coincidence. It's the most probable thing that you will be doing in getting the standard tests run on your code: bring the test fixture in the right state.

In this specific case, we fixed the fresh fixture. Running more standard tests will show other kinds of test errors. Solving these errors, however, is again mostly about updating the test fixture, fresh and, in some cases, shared fixture.

Executing and fixing Tests-Fixed Asset

Having run only one standard test app – Tests-VAT – let's see the results of running another one against our code: Tests-Fixed Asset. Some of those failures relate to the LookupValue extension. Apparently, the fix we implemented to tackle the errors thrown on the Tests-VAT test run did not prevent the...