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Designing tests

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The Designer has three columns: suites and cases on the left, the selected editor in the centre, and metadata plus the Action Library on the right.

Test case open in the Designer

Create a suite

Suites group related test cases and are the unit executed from the Run workspace.

  1. Select New > New suite.
  2. Enter a suite name and optional description.
  3. Select Save.

Select a suite name in the left panel to edit it and review its contents. The default suite cannot be deleted. A non-default suite must be empty before it can be deleted.

Create a test case

  1. Select New > New case.
  2. Enter a test case name and optional description.
  3. Select the suite that should contain the case.
  4. Add and configure steps on the Designer Canvas.
  5. Select Save.

New case, recording, and suite options

The case number is assigned automatically. A case is labelled Positive when every step expects success and Negative when at least one step expects failure.

Add and arrange steps

Add an action by selecting it in the Action Library, or drag it into the canvas. Configure the target and value fields shown for that action.

  • Drag a step's handle to change execution order.
  • Select × on a step to remove it.
  • Expand Comment to document intent or test data.
  • Expand Advanced settings to change the expected outcome for that step.
  • Use the Action Library settings icon to show only the toolkit groups you use.

Some Action Library groups display a Preview badge. This means the group contains at least one action that is available for early use but is not yet generally available. The badge applies to the group, not necessarily every action in it; point to an individual preview action to see the Preview action tooltip. Review preview steps carefully and allow for their inputs or behaviour to change in a future release.

The default first action is Open environment. A common smoke-test sequence is:

  1. Open environment.
  2. Open app.
  3. Navigate to table.
  4. Wait for grid load or form ready.
  5. Perform an action.
  6. Add one or more verification steps.

Select targets from metadata

When metadata is loaded, use the entity, app, field, and choice selectors to avoid spelling errors. Some steps allow typed text as a fallback when the desired control is not present in metadata.

Two navigation actions use metadata by default and offer text fallback in Advanced settings:

  • For Open app, select an app retrieved from metadata. Turn on Use text fallback for this step to enter the label displayed in the D365 app selector.
  • For Navigate to table, select a table to navigate directly using its logical name. Turn on Use text fallback for this step to enter the label displayed in the current app navigation.

Labels must match the text displayed in D365. The GUID and logical-name options are generally more resilient to renamed navigation labels.

When metadata is unavailable, every action that supports text fallback switches to it automatically. Text fallback remains required until metadata is retrieved.

Refresh metadata after apps, tables, columns, or choices change in the target environment. Remember that metadata comes from the active connection, while the case itself belongs to the active project.

To remove an environment's cached model completely, select the trash button in the Metadata panel and confirm. Metadata selectors become unavailable, and supported steps switch to text fallback until you retrieve the metadata again. Removing cached metadata does not delete the environment, suites, or test cases.

Set expected outcomes

Each step normally expects Success. Set a step to Failed when failure is the intended behaviour, such as confirming that invalid input is rejected.

A negative step passes only when its action fails as expected. If it succeeds unexpectedly, the report records: “Expected this step to fail, but it passed.”

Organise cases

In the left panel:

  • Drag cases within a suite to reorder them.
  • Drag a case onto another suite to move it.
  • Select a case to edit it.
  • Select Delete in the case editor to remove it.

Save before leaving the editor. Test cases in a suite run in their displayed order when sequential execution is configured; deployments may also support controlled parallel execution.

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