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Simon Buxton
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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
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Creating an Acceptance test library entity class

In the Application Explorer, there are hundreds of classes prefixed with atl. These classes are part of the Acceptance test library and are used to simplify and greatly reduce the code that's required to write test cases. Not only can these classes create setup data that is required to run a test, but also execute processes such as running a command to change the vehicle group. It may seem that we are blurring the lines between unit and integration tests. Unit tests aren't intended to test configuration data, and attempting this too early will complicate this process. At this stage, we will use atl to create some default setup data in order to write and execute unit tests. Before this framework was made available, we needed combinations of task recordings and databases that contain the base data for the tests.

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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
Read more about Simon Buxton