A couple of months ago I introduced here my GitHub project Test Automation Examples when I had just finished the first example as a spinoff of my new online course. And around that time I started with example 2. Test wise this one was a bit too ambitious and as a…
Sunday morning, sun softly touching me while I am sitting behind my laptop at the other end of our kitchen table. Time to write the post that has been on my mind for quite a while. A topic partly born out of amazement. An amazement triggered every once in a…
Over almost a decade I have been evangelizing test automation by blogging, presenting at various conferences and webinars, workshops, and, eventually last year, writing a book. People are picking up, but it’s clear there is still “a war to be won”. Testing, more specifically test automation, is too often considered…
While developing your own extension on NAV 2018 or “BC under version 15” you have the availability over 2 debuggers: the VSCode debugger and the C/SIDE (or should we call it Windows) debugger. Both serve a somewhat different scenario: VSCode debugger You want to run step-by-step through the code of…
Hang been working on a fully automated DTAP street for the past year using Azure DevOps, we are now getting in the phase of tightening the last nuts and bolts. This typically is about completing some part of the automation still, but mainly it’s about getting all the sources in…
If you read my book and want to confront me live, or too lazy to read it (yet) and want to hear me speaking or teaching, or you did not get to buy the book yet, you will have a number of chances to do so: May 18, 2019, 365…
You might not have noticed anything about it yet, but after 260 hours, spread over 5 months, of designing, coding, writing, and reviewing on my side, my first book, and the first book on test automation for Microsoft Dynamics NAV / Dynamics 365 Business Central has been released last week….
.. compared to non-UI, or so-called headless, testing. That was one of the major reasons that the testability framework was added to the Dynamics NAV platform back in 2009 by MS. It replaced its predecessor, the NAV Test Framework (NTF). NTF was a C# based test framework that allowed you…
The other day we found out that some part of one of our extensions was not uploaded to our source code repository and no local version was available anymore. But we did have the .app file. I knew from extensions version 1.0 that the extension file, the .navx, was a…
For those of you that have been following me for a reasonable number of years: you might have stumbled across my testimonial. It clearly marked a threshold in my professional carrier, and in hindsight it was worth all the while taking it. And now I am on the verge of…