Automated UI testing

This post is based on my replay in Dynamics Community forum, therefore if you read it there, you can safely move on. When I hear “automated testing” in Dynamics AX world, people almost always mean replicating what a human tester does – opening a form, clicking around and so on. It makes some sense, because …

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Local TF Build with VSO – Intro

If you want to use a proper source control system with Dynamics AX, you have in fact only one option: Team Foundation Server (TFS). MorphX VCS can’t cover all versioning needs (because it works only for resources in AOT) and it lacks many features, and Visual SourceSafe is not supported anymore. Because installation and maintenance …

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VSO licensing changes: more for less

The latest news about licensing of Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server is truly exciting. The first great news is that VSO licenses will be much cheaper, decreasing from $20/user/month (for the basic tier) to $8-$2, depending on the number of licenses. And you still have five users for free, free stakeholder licenses and …

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Join first line in AX 2012

You sometimes need to join only one related record for each parent record, for example one order line for each order header. I’m always suspicious of such requirements, because it often means that users/analysts didn’t realize that there may be more than one record, or they didn’t think enough of identifying the one record they …

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