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Dynamics & SAP.
Every update.
No surprises.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and SAP are not standard applications to test. Custom workflows, mandatory evergreen updates, and deep integration landscapes mean every release carries real risk. We've been automating regression testing for these platforms for years — across F&O, Business Central, CRM, and Supply Chain.

2×
Mandatory Dynamics updates per year
F&O · BC
CRM · SCM
Modules covered
12 hrs
Regression cycle — down from 2 weeks

The problem

Dynamics is powerful.
It's also expensive to break.

The more you've customised it, the more you have to verify every time something changes. And with Dynamics, something always changes.

Your customisations are
your risk.

Out-of-the-box Dynamics works fine. The moment you add custom workflows, ISV integrations, or bespoke business logic — which every serious Dynamics deployment does — you own the testing burden that comes with it. Microsoft's updates don't break standard functionality. They break yours.

The cost isn't just the broken integration. It's the people-hours spent finding it, the release delay while it gets fixed, and the uncertainty before every update cycle about what this one will touch.

Custom workflows silently fail after an update — discovered in production
ISV integrations behave differently across release versions
Regression cycles run manually, consuming weeks of QA or developer time
No consistent test coverage — different people test different things each cycle
Evergreen updates
Twice a year, mandatory. Every time a regression risk.

Microsoft pushes major Dynamics 365 releases on a fixed schedule. You cannot defer them indefinitely. Each one requires you to verify that your customisations, integrations, and business-critical workflows still function correctly — whether or not you have the capacity to test them.

Environment costs
Multiple environments, each one a maintenance burden.

Dev, test, UAT, production — each Dynamics environment carries licensing, infrastructure, and synchronisation costs. Managing test data across them is a recurring operational overhead that most teams absorb without ever measuring what it actually costs.


The update cycle

What happens twice
every year.

Without automated regression coverage, this cycle is expensive and stressful. With it, it becomes routine.

Microsoft releases
Update drops to your sandbox

The release lands in your non-production environment. You have a window to validate before it hits production.

The risk window
Customisations need to be verified

Every integration, custom workflow, and bespoke process needs to be checked. Without automation, this is manual — slow, inconsistent, and incomplete.

With AQAnetics
Automated regression runs immediately

The moment the update lands, your full regression suite runs against it. Failures surface within hours with full context — what broke, where, and why.

Result
Update goes to production with confidence

Known issues are filed and fixed before go-live. Unknown regressions don't reach users. The cycle that used to take two weeks takes twelve hours.


Technical depth

What makes Dynamics hard
to test. And how we solve it.

This is where specialist knowledge matters. Generic automation engineers hit walls in Dynamics that slow everything down. We've already been through them.

Custom workflow testing

Your unique business processes need test cases written specifically for them — not adapted from a generic template. We map your workflows and build coverage that reflects how your organisation actually uses Dynamics.

API-driven test data

Dynamics' data layer is powerful but slow to set up through the UI. We use the API for test preconditions and cleanup — meaning tests run faster, a shared database works across your team, and you don't need a separate environment per tester.

Integration regression

ISV products, custom connectors, and third-party integrations are the first things to break after an update. We include integration touchpoints in your regression suite so they're verified on every run, not just when someone notices a problem.

Shared environment strategy

Separate test databases per environment multiplies your infrastructure cost. Our API-based data management means multiple users and test runs can operate against a shared database safely — reducing environment overhead without sacrificing test isolation.

AI failure analysis on ERP failures

Dynamics failures are often verbose and opaque. AQA's AI analysis translates exceptions into plain-language descriptions of what broke and where — readable by business stakeholders, not just developers.

Scheduled pre-update regression

We align your regression schedule to Microsoft's release calendar. Before every major update, a full suite runs automatically — so you enter the update window knowing exactly what your exposure is.


Coverage

Modules we've tested
in production environments.

Microsoft Dynamics 365
Finance & Operations

The most complex Dynamics module to test — large transaction volumes, intricate financial workflows, and deep integration with external systems. We've run regression suites for F&O environments at enterprise scale.

Financial posting and ledger workflows
Procurement and vendor management flows
Custom approval chains and business rules
Period-end and batch processing verification
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Business Central

Mid-market ERP with a high degree of per-customer customisation. Business Central deployments are rarely standard — every client has extensions, modified workflows, and integrations that need regression coverage.

Extension and ISV add-on regression
Sales order and fulfillment workflows
Inventory and warehouse management
Custom field and logic validation
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Sales / CRM

CRM testing is often deprioritised until a broken workflow costs a deal. We cover the sales process end to end — lead capture, opportunity management, custom stages, and downstream integrations with marketing and ERP systems.

Sales pipeline and opportunity workflows
Custom entity and relationship validation
Integration with F&O and external platforms
Role-based access and data visibility rules
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Supply Chain & Warehouse

Operational workflows where failures have immediate, visible consequences. Supply chain testing requires understanding the business process deeply — a test that passes technically but reflects the wrong flow is worse than no test.

Inbound and outbound logistics workflows
Warehouse management system integration
Demand planning and replenishment flows
Cross-module integration with F&O

Environment strategy
Fewer environments.
Same coverage.

Most Dynamics clients maintain more environments than they need because their testing approach requires isolation. When test data setup and teardown happens through the UI, you can't safely share a database — so you provision separate environments instead.

We handle data management through the API. That means multiple test runs, multiple testers, and multiple test suites can operate against the same environment without interference. The infrastructure cost follows.

API-based preconditions and cleanup on every test
Shared database operates safely across parallel runs
Fewer environments to license, maintain, and synchronise
Faster test execution — no UI-based data setup overhead
What this changes
Environment licensing
Consolidate test environments without sacrificing coverage. Each Dynamics environment has a cost — reducing the count reduces the bill.
Data synchronisation overhead
Keeping multiple environments in sync is a recurring manual task. A shared environment strategy eliminates most of it.
Test execution speed
UI-driven data setup is slow. API-driven setup runs in milliseconds. A full regression suite that took hours can run in a fraction of the time.
Team capacity
The people currently managing environment maintenance can focus on something more valuable. That time doesn't disappear — it moves.

Tell us about your
Dynamics
environment.

We'll map your customisations, integration points, and update cycle — and show you exactly what regression coverage would look like in your specific setup. No generic proposals.

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