Tomorrow exactly one month ago I wrote this post, based on the update in a number of test codeunits in NAV 2018 CU3: Let's talk about Shared Fixture and how to profit from this with the Dynamics NAV Test Toolkit . Just now I finished upgrading our test code to NAV 2018 CU4. It was a lot of work as I had to manually check a lot, but, wow, MS did an even greater job. The redesign introduced in CU3, and implemented on the first 100 test codeunits, now has been continued on an even larger number of…

It's been a while that I wrote on NAV and automated tests. In the meanwhile I have been teaching a lot all over Europe, and, yes, advocating test automation in NAV. And what did you do since my last post How-to: Run Standard Tests against Your Code ? Did you dare and try? And did you also have the time/guts to continue with it? I know some that did. In the same meanwhile I succeeded to get MS listen and implement a major request I had posed already some time ago. We'll get to that below as it…

The other day I wanted to get my local NAV 2018 installation fully working. Fully local, including VSCode. And ... setup an extra database with its own service tier. In the end it was quite easy, not in the least to some very helpful resources (see below), but I ran into a couple of other issues I needed to get fixed. It might be of help to you. Knowing I will typically forget the details, it surely will to be me in the near future. But take advantage of it, if needed. And if you have other…

The other day I had to update the objects I use in my training, from 2017 and 2018. Not a lot altogether, thus easy to do this manually and have a look at the changes. I was glad to have to do this as it showed that a number of fields have been stretched. Fields we typically use in our solution, be it the standard fields themselves or clones of them on our own objects. So next to the code merge from 2016 to 2018 we were starting on, we were to update our code according to these findings. …

Let's confess before I start: getting standard tests to run against your code is by no means rocket science. However, I dare say many peers out there haven't even touched the Test Toolkit, seemingly looking at it as an unbearable threshold. Too much work. Of no relevance to their code. Unknown = unloved (as my mother used to say). Clearly the majority of the audience I have been speaking to on the Test Automation Suite in the last year and a half, never laid hands on it. I hope I did trigger…