Automated Acceptance Testing?

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I'm new to AX development. My experience is with C# desktop applications. In that model we would use WPF+MVVM. We would then write acceptance tests that eventually interacted with the ViewModel layer. In my experience directly manipulating UI controls is a real hassle and tests are very brittle. So what do people do in AX?

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Martin Dráb 236,182 Most Valuable Professional on at

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RE: Automated Acceptance Testing?

Unfortunately it's impossible in AX to isolate view and controlling layers in the same way as with MVVM, but that doesn't mean that developers can't extract logic to be tested to classes separated from forms and write tests against these classes. The classes often have to refer to views, but they provide sufficient abstraction so you don't have to care about form controls in your tests.

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RE: Automated Acceptance Testing?

There are some third party products released specific for testing in AX recently, but you'll have to search the web for it, I don't remember what the names were. Besides those, you can technically use any automated testing tool you like, such as Microsoft's Test Manager etc.

You'll find there's not much adoption of these practices in the AX world, despite the size of the product and the size of the business using the product.

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Mohammed Aurang 320 on at

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RE: Automated Acceptance Testing?

Manual testing.. although there is a testing tool using Visual Studio to create white box ... and other scripting test cases

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