If you’ve spent some time using VS 2010 Coded UI with Dynamics AX 2012 you’ve probably noticed that playback can be slow.  Watching the playback, you will see that there will be some activity, then a pause, then some more activity, more pausing...

I recently had the need to explore using Visual Studio Coded UI capabilities to create some data in Dynamics AX.  I had never used the data driven test capability in VS and was pleasantly surprised to see how easy it was to use.  Having no experience...

Almost three years ago, I wrote a blog post about the possibility of a TFS Express version in future releases.  The post provided a link to Microsoft Connect Feedback Item 430891 where customers could vote on the need for an express version. I have...

A new white paper, “Testing best practices for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012”, is now available on the Microsoft Download Center, PartnerSource, and CustomerSource.  The Download Center link is http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27565...

The Visual Studio team maintains a web page ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380742.aspx ) titled Supported Configurations and Platforms for Coded UI Tests and Action Recordings. The Platforms table on the page lists UI technologies (MFC, WPF...

Just a quick post to let you know that we have a number of open development positions at our Fargo location.  In particular, we are looking to fill a number of Software Design Engineer in Test positions, including a couple on my team. Why should...

The Microsoft Dynamics AX Community site is a great place to flag for all things AX.  There are guest columnists, blogs, videos, executive insights, and forums that enable you to “Ask the Community”.  There are two things in particular that...

In my last post , I categorized automated regression tests into two broad categories – UI and headless. I placed SysTest tests in the headless category since the framework can’t test UI by design. In this post, I’m going to discuss different types of...

I’ve written about the Microsoft Dynamics AX unit testing framework, SysTest, in this blog in the past. The most notable was a post dedicated to reference materials for the framework here . I closed that post, dated February 2008, with “More on SysTest...

I am getting ready to head down to the Microsoft Dynamics Convergence Conference in Atlanta next week.  The conference is followed by a Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Solution Architect Workshop.  The primary reason for the trip is to help with...

We have a number of openings at Microsoft Fargo on our development teams as well as other groups.  To help with the recruiting, we’re hosting two "Career Days” to learn about the opportunities in March – one in the Twin Cities and one in Fargo...

The Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Conference 2011 will be held on January 17-20 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, WA.  This will be a great opportunity to get a preview of Microsoft Dynamics AX”6”. The response for the event has been...

In many Microsoft product development teams, there are dedicated resources that work on test automation “tooling”.  For instance, I lead a team for Microsoft Dynamics AX that works on a portion of the test automation “tooling” for the team. ...

A colleague pointed me to a recent blog post that shows a new way to learn about Visual Studio 2010 test tools.  Brian Keller is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management.  He created an interactive...

Terry Clancy’s blog post, Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools - Partner Integration Opportunities , contains a paper that contains some great information on the VS 2010 Test Tools capabilities, architecture, and partner opportunities.  In addition to the...

A core piece of the testing for the Dynamics AX ecosystem strategy is the testing capabilities of Visual Studio 2010.  I’ve provide a brief overview in previous posts.  This post will provide some more details and references to many more details...

Wow… it’s 2010.  I’m way overdue for an update from my last post in May…  The story that I laid out in that long ago post has been getting crisper, but the high level concepts have stayed essentially the same.  In early October, I had the...

I spent a week in early May at the Software Design Review (SDR) / Knowledge Transfer at our Microsoft campus in Bellevue, WA. The SDR is an opportunity for our AX development team to present and discuss release progress with the customers and partners...

As mfp discussed in his blog post, Dynamics Ax 2009 Version Control Interview , Microsoft Dynamics AX now supports Team Foundation Server (TFS) as a source code control option.  TFS is a capable tool for source code control, bug tracking, and project...

It’s been a few days since I installed Windows 7 in my laptop. I now have installed SQL 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and Dynamics AX 2009 and I am still very pleased with the new operating system. One of the coolest features is one the most basic features...

I had an all day meeting cancelled at the last minute today.  It was just the opportunity that I was looking for to get on with a project that I’ve been wanting to do. My two year old Toshiba M400 laptop has been feeling a bit sluggish lately. ...

We've had a pretty serious start to winter here in the Upper Midwest. The last that I heard we had reached 24" of snow for the month of December. With a couple days left and a couple more fronts planned to come through, there's a good chance that we break...

There's a new white paper available on MSDN which provides testing guidance for Microsoft Dynamics AX ISVs. Also available is a simple Excel based template for test case management and a sample test case created using the Task Recorder feature in Microsoft...

James Whittaker is one of the most distinguished testers at Microsoft. He's written a couple of books and is a well known in the industry for his work in testing – particularly in the Security field (see this interview ). James is now the Architect for...

As I mentioned in my previous post , Dynamics AX has an integrated development environment and a specialized language called X++. Inspired by the usefulness of 'xUnit' based frameworks like JUnit and NUnit, the developers for Dynamics AX 4.0 (released...