1. Automated Testing Strategies and Dynamics 365 Performance Management

2. Catherine Thole Principal Technical Architect
Catherine Thole is a Technical Architect at Stoneridge Software. Prior to joining Stoneridge she spent 11.5 years at Microsoft. With over a decade of experience, Catherine has held many different roles, including: Dynamics AX Support Engineer, Dynamics AX Support Escalation Engineer, Partner Technical Consultant, and Senior Technical Consultant, focusing on the technical aspects of Dynamics AX and Dynamics 365 F&O.
Just before leaving the support organization she trained engineers from around the globe on Dynamics AX 2012 in the UK. In August of Catherine joined the Global Partner Services organization as a Partner Technical Consultant. In this role she assisted partners in pre-sales deals, implementations, hardware assessments, performance tuning, and training.
Catherine has expertise in multiple D365 Finance and Operations implementations focusing on code builds and deployments, system administration including DRA configuration, security, performance, and LCS. In previous versions going back to Axapta 3.0 she has experience with Dynamics AX Installations, Enterprise Portal, Reporting Services, Upgrades, Administration – including security, AOS, and performance tuning. She enjoys putting this knowledge to work to solve customer’s business problems and train users. Catherine has presented on a variety of topics at FastTrax, AXUG, and Convergence.

3. Today’s Agenda
RSAT basics
Process Flow
Demo
D365 Performance

4. RSAT Basics

5. What is Regression Suite Automation Tool (RSAT)
Automated tool to run tests in Dynamics 365 F&O
Why we need this tool
Utilizes
LCS (Business Process Modeler)
Azure Dev Ops (Test cases)
Dynamics 365 (Task Recorder)
Excel (Parameter files)
To download the tool:

6. What is Regression Suite Automation Tool (RSAT)

7. Who is involved Task Role on project
Agree on business processes for implementation
Customer Architect, Subject Matter Experts, project team members; Partner Solution Architect, functional consultants, project manager
Create then load Business Process catalog in BPM
Customer or Partner Project Manager or test lead
Connect LCS and Azure Dev ops, including sync of BPM to Azure Dev ops
Customer System Admin or Partner Technical Consultant
Record Business processes in Dynamics 365 with Task Recorder and save to LCS
Subject Matter Experts
Synchronize recordings to Azure Dev ops
Customer System Admin or Partner Technical Consultant or test lead
Configure RSAT tool
Configure Test cases in Excel for RSAT
Subject Matter Experts or test lead
Run tests in RSAT tool
Test lead, PM, SME

8. Pre-req’s Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations test environment
Excel
Azure Dev ops including Test Manager license
Authentication Certificate
Windows SDK
Windows SDK Signing Tools for Desktop Apps
Windows SDK for UWP Managed Apps

9. Before you start Business Process Hierarchy loaded to BPM
Sync your BPM to Azure Dev ops
What processes need to be tested every code release
Think through how you validate a business process was successful
Does it matter what company is used – will different companies require different processes
Info on BPM:

10. Task Recorder Best Practices
Start at Main Menu
More recordings that are short
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Refrain from steps that require the local machine
Info on Task recorder:

11. End to End Flow Create Business Process hierarchy/catalog
Create & Import BPM template
Sync BPM to Azure Dev Ops
Record Process in Task Recorder & save to LCS
Sync BPM to Azure Dev Ops to create test cases
Create Test Plan in Azure Dev Ops and add Test Cases
Install & Configure RSAT
Update Parameters and data
Execute Tests
Check Results

12. Demo

13. Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Performance

14. Monitoring – Environment monitoring

15. Monitoring – Environment monitoring

16. Available logs to review activity

17. SQL Activity

18. SQL Queries

19. SQL Insights tab

20. SQL Insights tab

21. SQL Actions Many activities SQL DBA used to Be careful in this tab!!
Create indexes on tables
End SQL processes
Rebuild an index
Update stats
Be careful in this tab!!

22. Index Analysis

23. Questions?