Microsoft Dynamics 365 Testing
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Guide to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Testing

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is considered to be one of the best suite & enterprise applications used for managing business finance and operations. Additionally, it can prepare an effective customer engagement base that brings more quality leads to the business. With more innovative features and frequent updates to this software application Dynamics 365 makes the space in the industry and becomes a demanding application among businesses.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 contains a bunch of applications and other integral add-ons that help businesses with their needs for customer relationship management and Enterprise resource planning. Dynamics consider the most flexible application. Businesses can easily adapt Dynamics 365 and connect it with the backend of their operations. It has majorly two main solutions to offer:-

Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations: Normally, Large and well-diverse companies adopt this solution for scale-up. A business that runs multiple lines of operations has a complex manufacturing process and expands into many countries, and can use this solution to make its financial and operational tasks smoother.

Dynamics 365 Business Central: This solution is suitable for small & medium-sized businesses. It can solve their internal mechanism loopholes to scale their operational and financial reach in the market. 

Dynamics 365 Testing 

Multiple applications of dynamics work in a combined manner, like a building block. Businesses choose blocks they find more suitable, so dynamics are built differently for each business’s requirement. Let’s take an instance of an e-commerce business & any physical store. Their operational and financing decisions & tasks differ from each other. However, Dynamics 365 perfectly sets for both businesses, although different components of dynamics are used for these businesses. 

In today’s time, businesses have become more dynamic. They are required to be constantly evolving and adapting to major changes happening in the market. Not all distinct functions of Dynamics 365 can be compatible with different nature businesses. Here comes the need for a developer to twist up coding a little bit to get desirable results. So, when a developer changes a few pieces of code for the required output, it can affect the functionality and create bugs. In this case, the Dynamics user interface and other functionality require testing with each customization.

Manual Vs. Automation Testing 

If we talk about manual testing, then there will be a team devoted to application testing setting up a list of more requirements and high expectations. The process involves more manual efforts with clicking each functionality and passes through a pass or fail test at each step. There will be a need for extra time and resources in manual testing with the considerable scope of human error risk. 

On the other hand, automation Microsoft Dynamics 365 testing runs different functionality tests with the help of a computer. It can edge manual testing with more accuracy and speed and eliminate the risk of human error. This can also save testers time to focus only on major tasks with their exploratory testing. 

Adapting automation testing will definitely have more benefits than manual testing, businesses get better results, and processes will take shorter time duration with minimal risk & errors. Automation can solve highly advanced technical challenges that may be slightly difficult in manual testing, and there is a wider scope for expanding automated tools with coding. 

What Can You Automate in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Testing?

More advanced technology innovation & advancement can make it possible to automate much different functionality of Dynamics 365. It assists in automation testing and derives more accurate results by pointing out different bugs and rectifying them beforehand. So, here is the list of things we can automate in testing Dynamics 365 through automation.

Form 

Dynamics 365 generates different data to correctly evaluate customer demand and bring more leads by improving customer engagements. This feature can automate creating new data in Dynamics and set up a new contact in their sales application. Different field types present in these forms are dropdowns, two option fields, date fields, and plain text fields.

Login Feature

Applications of dynamics rely on an automatic login option. Here user credentials get transferred from Microsoft 365 login to the Dynamics application. Automation testing can help in verifying these features and updates about different users. 

Reading Data

With lots of products and applications, Dynamics 365 raises the need to maintain data integrity, which becomes a challenge when data is flooded through multiple channels. It will be a good idea to create automation testing to read and verify data fastly with accuracy.

Finding items 

We can use automation for locating items, and dynamics contain various lists and view with data entries. With the automated tool, there will be an option of inserting values from a database directly with spreadsheets and other sources.

Try Opkey Automation!

Opkey’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 test automation platform reduces the requirement for manual testing by a good percentage. It conveniently plugs into your business model and discovers appropriate bugs, and covers essential gaps. Most importantly, no high technical knowledge is required to use Opkey products. It is a simple drag & drop-testing platform where you can start test recorders to document browser sessions and develop robust scripts. It also provides auto-generated reports and ticket-raising options without leaving platforms for smooth tests. 

Get your business a better innovative solution with Opkey Microsoft Dynamics 365 testing.