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Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816427
Length 406 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

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

Test example 13 – VAT Registration No. validation

In this example, we are going to show how the standard VAT registration number validation feature in Business Central could be made testable, enabling us to mimic the validation service. For your convenience, we have duplicated Figure 13.2 here, showing you the basic flow of the VAT registration number validation:

Figure 13.7 – VAT Registration No. validation flow with a test double server

As we are not able to modify the code behind this standard feature, and as the code does not provide the right means to hook into it, we will build a standalone feature that imitates the process, as discussed in Replacing a server with a test double – dependency injection section. This standalone feature allows us to demonstrate how DI could help make an outgoing call testable.

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As in the previous example, we will again focus on the structure and code of the automated tests and not on the flow...

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