NEW: Test Automation for Functional Roles online course
Last year I did setup a NEW course: Test Automation for Functional Roles online course.
I has been run a few times with success. Might you be interested in a new run send us an email at info@fluxxus.nl.
More details to be found here.
Getting handed over the full text to your ConfirmHandler
For those of you that are coding tests the concept of UI Handlers is probably a known fact. It’s one of the first technical things I explain in my test automation course and I call it the third pillar of the testability framework in Business Central. Each UI Handler type has a specific signature and...
Addendum #05 – Include Lookup Value in Restore Archived Sales Document feature
In chapter 6 of my book, on pages 109 and 110, the data model and business logic changes for the Lookup Value business case are listed and discussed. One way or another these changes are covered by most of the test examples worked on in the book. Accept for the two following business rules that were...
Addendum #04 – Verifying the Report Dataset
As I explain in my book with test example 8 in chapter 8, the testability framework – or actually the test toolkit – does not provide for layout testing, only dataset testing. Those who bought both the 1st and 2nd edition of my book might have noticed that the verification part of this report test...
10 Years fluxxus.nl
Dear readers, customers, students … dear fellow human beings. It’s a little over 10 years that I got the opportunity to start my own business, fluxxus.nl.And through this I got the chance to get in contact with you. To work with you, to teach you, to talk to you, and, maybe the most important thing,...
Addendum #03 – Simplifying API testing using basic authentication
Time for another addendum to my book: simplifying API testing. In the first part of Chapter 13, Testing Incoming and Outgoing Calls, I discuss how you can go about testing incoming calls, i.e. calls to your APIs. In this I followed the approach by MS in testing their APIs: Set up your Business Central environment...
Interview: Why test automation for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a team effort
by Jason Gumpert, editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com Last December the 2nd edition of Luc van Vugt’s book Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central was released by Packt Publishing. The book aims to explain how to “efficiently automate test cases for faster development with less time needed for manual testing.” And speed in development work is an urgent need...
From fresh to shared fixture #3 – refactoring can start
At the end of the second post of this series I left you hanging just when I was ready to really start refactoring. Sorry for that and shouldn’t let you wait no longer. So, here we go. Refactoring can start But where to start? Well, let’s list the things that could be cleaned up. In...
From fresh to shared fixture #2 – a refactoring example
In the first post of this series I started with stating the intention that … I would like to display a very simple, though instructive, example of how easy refactoring works when you have both app and test code at your disposal. And that’s what I am going to do in this second post as...
Test Automation for Microsoft D365 Business Central online course
Another run of the: Test Automation for #msdyn365bc online course.
Starting on 7th of May 2025, in six sessions I will introduce you into the world of BC test automation.
More details and registration form to be found here.
MS Changelog and Code Markers #2
For those who are already are roaming around in AL code of local versions of NAV 2013 my blog post MS Changelog and Code Markers can be somewhat usefully. Why? Well you might have noticed that in each localized object of NAV 2013 the documentation trigger is populated with an…
Recordings of NAV TechDays 2012 are now available!
On NAV 2013 Licenses – Part 1 | Add-on Ranges
Just wanted to take you with me on my journey to clarify the unknowns around the new licenses. Hope you don’t mind me chatting with a MS operations professional. OP: Good morning, Luc Me: Good morning, Operations Professional. OP: How can I help you? Me: I just created a new…
C/AL Testability Survey
Haven’t been at the NAV TechDays 2012? Or haven’t been able to fill out the C/AL Testability Survey conducted by the NAV Team? Here’s a second change. Download it from here, fill it out and return it to me: lvanvugt@fluxxus.nl. As WORD doc, as scan (after printing and filling in…
2nd Edition of my book
December 2021 the 2nd edition of my book was published: 400 pages, twice the size of the 1st edition. I am still thankfull to the many that helped me getting it done.
Get yourself a copy here.
Want to know what the 2nd edition brings? Read this post.