irections emea 2023 lyon
1-3 November 2023

Directions EMEA 2023

Directions EMEA is the "Go To" place where Dynamics partners share the future. It's the preferred global community for collaborating and learning from Microsoft, MVPs, ISVs, VARs and their peers. The focus is on helping the SMB market unlock its full potential in technical, business development and strategy with ERP, CRM, and Cloud solutions, including the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and Azure.

02-11-2023

10 Myths about test automation on customer projects

15:00 - 15:45 Rhone 3 Back to event schedule

As customers adopt the Cloud-first approach and implement Business Central SaaS, the subject of Test Automation (TA) is often left behind when PTE development is needed. TA tends to be surrounded with a lot of myths and hear-say. The biggest of them: "You just can't sell that."

Seemingly valid arguments, will have you believe that the workload and technical know-how required in order to provide your customers with TA is just "too much" and "not worth it for the customer" prevents you from even bringing it up. Henrik Helgesen and Luc van Vugt would never drive their cars without having a proper insurance, and neither should your customers.

In this session Henrik Helgesen and Luc van Vugt will unravel 10 myths about Test Automation on customer projects and provide you with suggestion on how to turn this into a business opportunity.

Speakers:

Henrik Helgesen

President, Helgesen Consulting, Inc.

Henrik is a Veteran in the NAV and Business Central world. Henrik has worked with clients in a plethora of industries and geographic locations and sizes.

Henrik is proud to be known as a dinosaur ...

Luc van Vugt

fluxxus.nl, MS MVP

In 1999, Luc van Vugt stepped into the Dynamics 365 Business Central world, training hundreds of developers. After Microsoft acquired Navision, he joined Microsoft's Dynamics localization team GDL as a tester, UA specialist, and project lead. For 6 years, he was closely involved with all successive releases. Since he left Microsoft, he has become an active community member by means of his blog. He is a co-founder of the Dutch Dynamics Community and a speaker at conferences. For all his community work, Luc has been awarded MS MVP since 2011.
In 2014, he co-founded NAV Skills, supporting Dynamics 365 Business Central pros around the globe with, among other things, webinars until 2019.
He has continued ever since to organize webinars under the flag of Areopa webinars. In 2012, Luc started fluxxus.nl, doing miscellaneous projects, including Business Central
development courses and automated testing. Luc is one of the main driving forces on test automation in the Business Central community.