Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Efficiently automate test cases for faster development cycles with less time needed for manual testing, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Vugt, Luc Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1801816425 ISBN 13: 9781801816427

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Learn how to write automated tests for Dynamics 365 Business Central and discover how you can implement them in your daily work

Key Features

• Leverage automated testing to advance over traditional manual testing methods
• Write, design, and implement automated tests
• Explore various testing frameworks and tools compatible with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Book Description

Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. With development practices becoming more formal, implementing changes or new features is not as simple as it used to be back when Dynamics 365 Business Central was called Navigator, Navision Financials, or Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision, and the call for test automation is increasing.

This book will show you how to leverage the testing tools available in Dynamics 365 Business Central to perform automated testing. Starting with a quick introduction to automated testing and test-driven development (TDD), you'll get an overview of test automation in Dynamics 365 Business Central. You'll then learn how to design and build automated tests and explore methods to progress from requirements to application and testing code. Next, you'll find out how you can incorporate your own as well as Microsoft tests into your development practice. With the addition of three new chapters, this second edition covers in detail how to construct complex scenarios, write testable code, and test processes with incoming and outgoing calls.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to write your own automated tests for Microsoft Business Central.

What you will learn

• Understand the why and when of automated testing
• Discover how test-driven development can help to improve automated testing
• Explore the six pillars of the Testability Framework of Business Central
• Design and write automated tests for Business Central
• Make use of standard automated tests and their helper libraries
• Understand the challenges in testing features that interact with the external world
• Integrate automated tests into your development practice

Who This Book Is For

This book is for consultants, testers, developers, and development managers working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Functional as well as technical development teams will find this book on automated testing techniques useful.

About this title

About the Author

In 1999, Luc van Vugt stepped into the NAV world, training hundreds of developers. After Microsoft acquired Navision, he joined Dynamics localization team GDL as tester, UA specialist, and project lead. For 6 years, he was closely involved with all successive releases. Since he left Microsoft, he has become an active community member by means of his blog. He is also co-founder of Dutch Dynamics Community and a speaker at conferences. For this, he has been awarded MS MVP since 2011. In 2014, he co-founded NAV Skills, supporting NAV pros around the globe with, among other things, webinars. In 2012, Luc started fluxxus.nl, doing miscellaneous projects, including NAV development courses and workshops on design patterns, and automated testing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1801816425
• ISBN 13: 9781801816427
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 406