Luc van Vugt - 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

Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Second Edition

Efficiently automate test cases for faster development cycles with less time needed for manual testing

Luc van Vugt

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Automated Testing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

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To all that keep me growing as a human being; not in the least my wife, Saskia, our three great kids, Cyriel, Elvira, and Micha, my family and friends, and all the students I had the chance to teach and meet over the years.

Luc van Vugt

In 1999, Luc van Vugt stepped into the Dynamics 365 Business Central world, training hundreds of developers. After Microsoft acquired Navision, he joined Microsoft's Dynamics localization team GDL as a 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 a co-founder of the Dutch Dynamics Community and a speaker at conferences. For all his community work, Luc has been awarded MS MVP since 2011. In 2014, he co-founded NAV Skills, supporting Dynamics 365 Business Central, at that time still called Dynamics NAV, pros around the globe with, among other things, webinars until 2019. He has continued ever since to organize webinars under the flag of Areopa webinars. In 2012, Luc started fluxxus.nl, doing miscellaneous projects, including Dynamics 365 Business Central development courses and workshops on design patterns, and automated testing. Luc is one of the main driving forces on test automation in the Dynamics 365 Business Central community.

There are many people I am thankful to, for helping me gain the knowledge that I am sharing with you but a couple to mention explicitly here:

The interview volunteers where the project of this second edition started with: Tin, Xavi, Maarten, Gert, Krzysztof, Jeremy, Guido, and Olaf.

Xavi Ametller Serrat, Maarten Gerritsen, and Daniel Rimmelzwaan for their invaluable reviews with great suggestions that gave the book more than I could have on my own.

The Packt team, who did a great job, surpassing my initial expectations by far.

Daniel Rimmelzwaan was born and raised in the Netherlands and moved to the USA at the end of 1999 to be with his American wife in the beautiful mountains of Northern Arizona. Over the past two decades, Daniel has worked in just about every role around implementing NAV and now Business Central. He currently owns his own business (risplus.com) doing business analysis, architecture and design, and development. He is enjoying his career more than ever.

Ever since he started working with Business Central, Daniel has contributed to its online communities. For those contributions, Daniel received his first of seventeen consecutive Microsoft MVP awards in July 2005. Follow Daniel's blog at http://thedenster.com/.

Maarten Gerritsen has over 20 years of experience with Business Central and its predecessors, NAV/Navision. With Business Central, he can do what he loves most: creating solutions for the SMB market. He has a strong focus on process analysis and solution architecture. He worked for implementation partners and has been self-employed since 2007 (www.intelligo.nl).

Finally, when starting to develop for AppSource in 2019, he was forced to do something with automated testing. This got him hooked and he got passionate about the ATDD methodology, and it changed the way he creates solutions with Business Central.

Maarten lives in the Netherlands with his wife and two children. They teach him the most valuable lessons in life every day.

Xavier Ametller has been working in software development since 2003. Around 2009, he was a tester in what was called Microsoft Dynamics NAV, where he was lucky to meet Luc and discovered what now is Business Central.

When he left Microsoft, Xavi moved away from the BC world so he's not an expert on the topic. On the other hand, Xavi has participated in developing software in multiple roles and contexts during his career, so he tried to bring a view from the outside world while reviewing this book.

Xavi has a blog at https://www.myowncommonsense.com/ where he shares rants on software development. As a side quest to his job, he offers training and consultancy on development-related topics.

Xavi and his family live happily in Catalonia, Spain.