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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

Features › Developer tools

Strongly typed test context

GA · 0 min in 1 video · dev relevance high · documented as Build extensible and data-driven AL test suites medium match

Strongly typed test context

The data source returns an ITestContext, but the test can use its own interface for typed test data.

Area: Developer tools. Status: GA. Developer relevance: high. Airtime: 0 min across 1 video, demoed.

Status evidence

  • Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 3:28 "right now this reads from the resource file but it could equally be reading from an AL table or your web service" - Shows the data source is open-ended, not tied to resource files.

Documented features match

  • Build extensible and data-driven AL test suites - medium confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573333. Data-driven tests
  • Product documentation: Create test codeunits and test methods, checked 2026-10-02. The parameter type must be interface ITestContext or an interface that extends it. Note: Section marked 'APPLIES TO: Business Central 2026 release wave 2 and later'; preview with prerelease runtime 18. See also TestDataSource attribute page.

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale.

Tags: testing, al, interfaces

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.