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NEW: Test Automation for Functional Roles online course

I have setup a NEW course: Test Automation for Functional Roles online course.
Starting on 22nd of April 2024, in two sessions and a workshop I will learn you the meaning of a Test Plan and how to build one.
More details and registration form 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 22nd of May 2024, in six sessions I will introduce you into the world of BC test automation.
More details and registration form to be found here.

How-to: Search in C/AL Globals and Locals

Luc van Vugt December 23, 2009 December 23, 2009BC 0

Writing my blog post How-to: Search a Field in Table Designer I fully forgotten to mention that in a similar way you can search in C/AL Globals and C/AL Locals. Be it Variables: .. or Functions: … or Parameters: … or Text Constants – although in general this will not…

Validating Data #2: Using VALIDATE

Luc van Vugt December 19, 2009 December 15, 2021BC 2

Whereas validation of user input is one side of the medal, the other is validation of code entered data, the subject of this blog post. Code Entered Data Just as any user input code entered data should be validated before it is allowed to be recorded in the database. A…

Validating Data #1: User Input

Luc van Vugt December 19, 2009 December 15, 2021BC 1

Having seen a couple of posts on data validation coming by I decided to tackle this issue in a couple of blogs of which this one is the first. Just to straighten out me thoughts and knowledge on this, and share it with you. User Input Like in any other…

Error in Version List – NAV 2009 SP1

Luc van Vugt December 13, 2009 December 13, 2009BC 2

A couple of weeks ago I started working on a code review of two of our add-ons. One build on the German (DE) and the other on the Dutch (NL) version of NAV 2009 SP1. The first step I take in this kind of job is to perform a simple text…

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

How-to: Search in C/AL Globals and Locals

Validating Data #2: Using VALIDATE

Validating Data #1: User Input

Error in Version List – NAV 2009 SP1

2nd Edition of my book