Anil Kondla
Last Updated on July 17, 2024 by Team Experts
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a comprehensive and powerful tool for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM). Its overriding goal is to accelerate and increase the efficiency of companies in their daily operations. Thanks to its functionality and customizability, the platform has empowered digital transformation in many organizations. However, the customizability of the D365 means that the tool must undergo regular testing. So how to test Dynamic 365?
Dynamics 365 is highly customizable to specific business requirements and use cases. It is often integrated with existing systems and infrastructure in the company or with external software. That’s one of the reasons why you need to test it regularly. Regular releases and complex applications create a growing workload for manual testers in Dynamics 365. Therefore, it’s worth considering implementing an automated testing approach.
Manually testing of Dynamics 365
Very often, ERP systems are still tested manually. That is due to the complexity of the application and the difficulty of creating test automation scenarios for it. Moreover, manual testing requires at least little programming knowledge and might be too slow to keep up with the pace of updates or implementation changes to the application. In turn, the regular pace enhancement of Dynamics 365 releases means that manual testing might not allow you to test the impact of each new version on all modifications and customizations. Fortunately, there are already solutions available to eliminate this problem.
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Select automated testing for D365
An alternative to manual testing is implementing frameworks and tools that automate this process. Efficiently responding to potentially unforeseen influences on non-standard configurations makes test automation an indispensable test helper. You don’t need a team of testers to perform each test scenario manually. Automated tests can be run on-demand, on schedule, or as part of the build process to get immediate feedback on the quality of the new version.
Several technology solutions are available on the market that can automate Dynamics 365 testing. However, most of them are heavily code-oriented. That means you have to hire software engineers who can write automated scripts.
Dynamics 365 testing allows organizations to enjoy the total value of software updates while minimizing the risk of errors, which is why they are vital. Fortunately, we’ve already built a solution to make test automation as fast and straightforward as recording real users’ actions and then playing them back as testing cases. No programming skills are required to give you the flexibility to develop test automation scripts without the help of developers. You no longer have to give up test automation due to the complexity of its preparation. Instead, you can lower the amount of manual testing and faster deploy new releases.
Written in collaboration with executiveautomats.
