Testing CRM from a 360 View - extremeCRM Rome 2013

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Testing CRM from a 360 View
Wael Hamze
Ramon Tebar

Wael Hamze
• Enterprise Architect
• LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/waelhamze

Ramon Tebar
• Solution Architect
• Microsoft CRM MVP
• http://www.ramontebar.com

Dynamics under Control?

Testing from a 360 View?
Requirements
Design
Development
Test
Workflows
Common
Libraries
User
Interface
Plugins
Test
Test
Test
Test

Quality Requirements
• Capture Quality Requirements
– Clear, Unambiguous, Traceable
– Provide Use Cases
• Test your requirements
– No conflicts, Achievable, Business value
• Track your requirements
• Use your requirements as basis for the next
stages
Requirements Design Development Test

Demo
Tracking Requirements

Design for Testability
Common Per Solution
Plug-ins Workflows
External
Components
Common for All Solutions (Framework)
CRM Platform

Solution Structure
Demo

Unit Testing
Dependency
1
Component
Dependency
2
Unit Tests
Mock 1 Mock 2

Why Write Unit Tests?
• Validate all components work on their own
• Ability to Test Plug-ins & Custom Workflow
Activities without CRM Environment
• Ability to Test without Deployment
• Tests run much quicker
• Detect bugs very early and fix quickly
• Debug locally with Visual Studio

Write Testable Code: Dependency Injection
Plugin
CRM
Service Provider
Uses
CRM
Platform
CRM
Service Provider
Creates
IServiceProviderPlugin
Uses
Implements
Creates

Microsoft Fakes
• Framework for isolating code under test
released with .NET 4.5
• Create Mock object implementations for the
required interfaces (Stub) and classes (Shim)
• Mock any properties and methods by creating
standard .NET delegates
• Invoke the Mocked properties and methods
as part of your Unit Test

How to test a plugin
using
Microsoft Fakes
Demo

• It is definitely Possible
• It is definitely Helpful
• Too much effort using standard approach
Unit Testing Comments

Unit Test StubIServiceProvider Plugin
Create
Setup Mocks
Create
Execute
Call
Verify / Assert

Demo
How to test a plugin
using
xRM Test Framework

Unit Test WF Activities
CRM Workflow Runtime
Worflow
Worflow
Workflow
Custom
Workflow
Activity

Unit Test Mock<Extensions> Workflow Runtime
Create
Setup Mocks
Create + Inputs
Create + Inject Activity + Extensions
Execute
Workflow Activity
Invoke
Call
Verify
Outputs

Demo
How to test a custom
workflow activity
using
XRM Test Framework

JavaScript Unit Test
• There are already many JavaScript testing framework
(Jasmine, Qunit, UnitTestJS)
• Visual Studio does not provide “out-of-the-box” support
for JavaScript unit tests
• MS Test, the unit testing framework included in Visual
Studio, does not support JavaScript unit tests
• Avoid browser launchers: many of current solutions
require to launch the browser to execute unit tests

JavaScript Unit Test: Challenges & Solutions
• Execute JavaScript unit tests with Visual Studio in
exactly the same way any other unit test
– JsTest.Net
• No Browser required
• Using MSTest
• Server-side builds
• Unit tests should be able to mock DOM operations,
CRM service calls and Dynamics Xrm.Page API
– Xrm.Page Script Library Template (CRM SDKTemplates)

Demo
JavaScript
Unit Test

Integration Testing
Dependency 1
Component
Dependency 2
Integration Tests
Dependency 3
S
c
o
p
e

Why Write Integration Tests?
• Make sure Plug-ins & Custom Workflow
Activities work within the CRM Environment
• Make sure Deployment process works
• Create Automated Tests that be re-run to
detect Integration Issues between different
components in the same solution or other
solutions

Plug-insIntegration
Test
Organization
Service
Pre-Validate
Plug-in
Pre-Operation
Plug-in
Platform
Post-
Operation
Plug-in
Asynchronous
Plug-inDB

Custom Workflow Activities
Integration
Test
Integration Test Workflow
Inputs
Workflow
Activity
Assert
Pass Fail
Trigger
Check Status
More verify

Demo
Integration Test

Continuous Integration
Local Build
Check In
Build
Daily Build
• Unit tests
• Integration tests
• Unit tests
• Unit tests
• Integration tests
• Functional Tests
• Load tests
• Performance tests

Demo

Formal Manual Testing
• Testing CRM manually by going through a set
of well defined steps
• Steps should be derived from the
requirements
• Steps make up a test case that validates one
or more requirement
• Raising bugs when defects are found

Why do Manual Testing?
• Test for things that can’t be detected using
Unit or Integration Tests
– User Interface
– User Experience
– End to End use case execution
• Added human confidence
• System meets requirements

Demo
Manual Test
using
Microsoft Test Manager

Automating Manual Tests
• Once manual tests are stable consider automating
them to reduce testing time and focus on new
requirements
• Use Action Recording to record your Manual Test
• Convert Action Recording to Automated Coded UI
Tests that simulate user actions
• Run your Automated Tests as part of your

Demo
Coded UI Test

Web Performance Tests
• Test the performance of the system by
measuring HTTP response times required
to perform a certain use case
• Detect any bottle necks in the system
• Ensure system meets any non functional
SLA

Load Tests
• Test performance of the system under a
typical or extreme user load using a mix of
different types of tests
• Ensure users get reasonable performance
under load
• Ensure system doesn’t crash under load
• Ensure system performs as expended under
load

What is a good Test Balance?
Manual
Tests
Automated
Manual Tests
Integration Tests
Unit Tests

Conclusion
• Think about Testing all the way
• Test as Early as Possible
– Increased Confidence
– Detect Bugs Early -> Easier to Fix
– Improve Quality
– Happy Users
• Automate your Testing
• Use xRM Dev Framework to Improve Productivity

xRM Dev Framework
• Core Libraries
• Testing Platform for CRM components
• Continuous Integration TFS Templates and
Libraries
• Visual Studio Templates and Productivity
Tools
• http://xrmdevframework.codeplex.com

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