Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

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.
Table of Contents

Introduction to Automated Testing

Test Automation and Test-Driven Development

The Testability Framework

The Test Tool, Standard Tests, and Standard Test Libraries

Test Plan and Test Design

From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the Basics

From Customer Wish to Test Automation – Next Level

From Customer Wish to Test Automation – the TDD way

How to integrate Test Automation in Daily Development Practice

Getting Business Central Standard Tests Working on Your Code

How to Construct Complex Scenarios

Writing Testable Code

Testing Incoming and Outgoing Calls

Getting up and running with Business Central, VS Code, and the GitHub project