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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.

Poisson d'Avril, April Fools Day, 1 April, День Дурака?

Luc van Vugt April 2, 2011 April 2, 2011BC 3

Apparently not. Just before wrapping up for the weekend MS dropped this Congratulations 2011 Microsoft MVP! e-mail in my mailbox. April 1, what a day to receive this honor. April 1, always part of my memories. Those days, ages ago, when my brothers and I always seemed to succeed to…

What To Think of This? – A Tester’s Nightmare

Luc van Vugt March 25, 2011 March 25, 2011BC 2

The other day I had the task to customize the Import Budget from Excel and Export Budget to Excel batch jobs. To incorporate changes made in Financial Management as part of a major add-on we are building. Although the add-on is directly implemented for RTC, I decided to first get…

How-to: Debug RTC

Luc van Vugt March 25, 2011 March 25, 2011BC 1

So there I was sitting, stuck on a process running on RTC, throwing errors that typically did not occur on Classic. No RTC specific debugger (yet). But … never to young to learn! Unless C# is like cipher to you, it's not to difficult to get things working and go for…

Save the Date: May 19, 2011

Luc van Vugt March 20, 2011 March 20, 2011BC 0

The 3rd DDC event has been planned for May 19. So mark it in your agenda. As before you are welcome at 18:00h. After a joined meal we will kick off around 18:45h with a keynote followed by two parallel sessions. Session topics will be based on your input to a…

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 .

welcome at fluxxus.nl

welcome at fluxxus.nl

welcome at fluxxus.nl

NEW: Test Automation for Functional Roles online course

Getting handed over the full text to your ConfirmHandler

Addendum #05 – Include Lookup Value in Restore Archived Sales Document feature

Addendum #04 – Verifying the Report Dataset

10 Years fluxxus.nl

Addendum #03 – Simplifying API testing using basic authentication

Interview: Why test automation for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a team effort

From fresh to shared fixture #3 – refactoring can start

From fresh to shared fixture #2 – a refactoring example

Test Automation for Microsoft D365 Business Central online course

Poisson d'Avril, April Fools Day, 1 April, День Дурака?

What To Think of This? – A Tester’s Nightmare

How-to: Debug RTC

Save the Date: May 19, 2011

2nd Edition of my book