Testing SAP Solutions
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2007
Book
Hardback
367 pages
978-1-59229-127-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides you with comprehensive coverage of all testing requirements and techniques necessary for implementing, upgrading or operating SAP solutions. Readers get an overview of all existing tools, their functionalities, and best practices for utilization. The authors focus mainly on SAP Solution Manager, Test Workbench and eCATT, and their use in functional and load tests is highlighted in detail.
Highlights include:
- Test Theory
- Test Methodology: How SAP Solution Manager Supports Your Project
- Test Management: Test Cases, Test Plans, and Test Packages in SAP Solution Manager
- Test Automation: Cost Model and ROI
- Automated Functional Tests with eCATT
- SAP Test Data Migration Server
- Coverage Analyzer
- SAP LoadRunner by Mercury
- Monitoring Performance Tests
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Markus Helfen actually works as Head of the Business Division SAP Technology of PRISM Informatics Deutschland GmbH. Previously he was Consulting Director of the SAP Test Management Consulting unit of SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG. He joined SAP in 1994 and was involved in developing the SAP test-tool strategy and building a global consulting organization for SAP Testing services. He influenced the definition of the related service portfolio and worked as a program manager for the Application Lifecycle Management Consulting for SAP Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG. With his former team he drove many topics and standardized services successfully in the market, such as IT Reporting with SAP Solution Manager and SAP Business Objects Xcelsius or data anonymization with SAP Test Data Migration Server. He was also involved in a number of Test Center implementations. He has many years of experience in the corporate and customer environment, dealing with quality assurance and with testing in particular.
Michael Lauer is a Senior Quality Specialist in the Product Technology Group at SAP AG. For more than ten years, he has worked with the issues of quality assurance, test organization, and the automation of load tests and functional tests, from both the subject-specific and the technical viewpoints. His knowledge of tools and methods make him a sought-after expert amongst customers and colleagues alike.
Hans Martin Trauthwein is board member at Sofis AG, a consulting firm which -- among others -- specializes in Application Life Cycle Management with SAP Solution Manager (incl. SAP Test Management). Before working at Sofis, Hans Martin was a Principal Consultant in the SAP Test Management Consulting consulting unit of SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG. Since 1996, he has gained wide-ranging experience, both within the group and with customers, in the areas of quality assurance, test management and automation with SAP tools and Basis technologies, and the SAP Solution Manager. He has put this know-how to good use in his project activities.
Content
Preface ... 13
Foreword ... 15
1 Introduction ... 21
PART I Methodology
2 Theory of Software Testing ... 31
... 2.1 Test Types ... 31
... 2.2 Test Stages ... 32
... 2.3 Black-Box Test and White-Box Test ... 35
... 2.4 Test Case Design for the Black-Box Test ... 36
... 2.5 Test Data ... 40
3 Test Methodology ...43
... 3.1 Roadmaps in SAP Solution Manager ... 44
... 3.2 Project Preparation ... 48
... 3.3 Business Blueprint ... 51
... 3.4 Realization ... 55
... 3.5 Final Preparation ... 61
... 3.6 Go-Live and Support ... 67
PART II Functional Testing
4 Test Management with the SAP Solution Manager ... 71
... 4.1 SAP Solution Manager ... 72
... 4.2 SAP Solution Manager vs. SAP Test Organizer ... 78
... 4.3 Test Case Management ... 81
... 4.4 Generating Test Plans and Packages ... 105
... 4.5 Test Execution ... 109
... 4.6 Status Analysis ... 114
... 4.7 Integration Scenario ... 119
... 4.8 Customer Report from BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH ... 125
... 4.9 Customer Report from Reno Fashion & Shoes GmbH ... 134
5 Economic Aspects of Test Automation ... 143
... 5.1 A Cost Model for Software Testing ... 145
... 5.2 A Cost Model for Software Errors ... 152
... 5.3 Overall View ... 155
... 5.4 Customer Report from INVISTA Resins & Fibers GmbH ... 157
6 Test Automation with eCATT ... 171
... 6.1 Test Components and Architecture of the Test Landscape ... 172
... 6.2 Technical Requirements for Implementing eCATT ... 175
... 6.3 Structure of the eCATT Scripts ... 179
... 6.4 Testing Transactions without Controls ... 181
... 6.5 Testing Transactions with Controls ... 189
... 6.6 Testing Web Dynpro Applications ... 200
... 6.7 Testing Web Services ... 205
... 6.8 Integration with External Tools ... 208
... 6.9 Checking the Results ... 212
... 6.10 Managing Test Data ... 225
... 6.11 Modularizing Test Scripts ... 232
... 6.12 Running eCATT Scripts ... 236
... 6.13 Debugging eCATT Scripts ... 238
... 6.14 Overview of the eCATT Versions ... 241
... 6.15 Further Steps ... 242
... 6.16 Summary: Advantages of the Integration of eCATT in the SAP System ... 243
... 6.17 Customer Report from Zürcher Kantonalbank ... 245
7 SAP Test Data Migration Server ... 253
... 7.1 Functions and System Landscape of the SAP TDMS ... 254
... 7.2 Customer Report from Behr GmbH & Co. KG ... 261
8 Coverage Analyzer ... 269
PART III Performance Testing
9 Project Outline of a Performance Test ... 279
... 9.1 Load Test-Stress Test-Volume Test ... 281
... 9.2 Roles in a Performance Test Project ... 282
... 9.3 Phase Model of a Performance Test ... 284
... 9.4 Test Preparation ... 286
... 9.5 Performing the Load Test ... 295
... 9.6 Performing the Stress Test ... 300
... 9.7 Final Report ... 301
10 SAP LoadRunner by Mercury ... 305
... 10.1 Performance Test for Portal Applications ... 306
... 10.2 Customer Report by Sanofi-Aventis ... 311
11 Performance Testing Using SAP GUI Scripting ... 321
... 11.1 SAP GUI Scripting ... 322
... 11.2 Load Test Architecture ... 323
... 11.3 Script Development ... 325
... 11.4 Load Generators ... 327
... 11.5 Execution Log ... 329
... 11.6 Availability of the Consulting Solution ... 329
... 11.7 Customer Report from Universitätsklinikum Würzburg ... 330
12 Monitoring a Performance Test ... 341
... 12.1 Procedure ... 342
... 12.2 Transactions for Technical Monitoring ... 348
Appendix ... 361
Index ... 365
Foreword ... 15
1 Introduction ... 21
PART I Methodology
2 Theory of Software Testing ... 31
... 2.1 Test Types ... 31
... 2.2 Test Stages ... 32
... 2.3 Black-Box Test and White-Box Test ... 35
... 2.4 Test Case Design for the Black-Box Test ... 36
... 2.5 Test Data ... 40
3 Test Methodology ...43
... 3.1 Roadmaps in SAP Solution Manager ... 44
... 3.2 Project Preparation ... 48
... 3.3 Business Blueprint ... 51
... 3.4 Realization ... 55
... 3.5 Final Preparation ... 61
... 3.6 Go-Live and Support ... 67
PART II Functional Testing
4 Test Management with the SAP Solution Manager ... 71
... 4.1 SAP Solution Manager ... 72
... 4.2 SAP Solution Manager vs. SAP Test Organizer ... 78
... 4.3 Test Case Management ... 81
... 4.4 Generating Test Plans and Packages ... 105
... 4.5 Test Execution ... 109
... 4.6 Status Analysis ... 114
... 4.7 Integration Scenario ... 119
... 4.8 Customer Report from BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH ... 125
... 4.9 Customer Report from Reno Fashion & Shoes GmbH ... 134
5 Economic Aspects of Test Automation ... 143
... 5.1 A Cost Model for Software Testing ... 145
... 5.2 A Cost Model for Software Errors ... 152
... 5.3 Overall View ... 155
... 5.4 Customer Report from INVISTA Resins & Fibers GmbH ... 157
6 Test Automation with eCATT ... 171
... 6.1 Test Components and Architecture of the Test Landscape ... 172
... 6.2 Technical Requirements for Implementing eCATT ... 175
... 6.3 Structure of the eCATT Scripts ... 179
... 6.4 Testing Transactions without Controls ... 181
... 6.5 Testing Transactions with Controls ... 189
... 6.6 Testing Web Dynpro Applications ... 200
... 6.7 Testing Web Services ... 205
... 6.8 Integration with External Tools ... 208
... 6.9 Checking the Results ... 212
... 6.10 Managing Test Data ... 225
... 6.11 Modularizing Test Scripts ... 232
... 6.12 Running eCATT Scripts ... 236
... 6.13 Debugging eCATT Scripts ... 238
... 6.14 Overview of the eCATT Versions ... 241
... 6.15 Further Steps ... 242
... 6.16 Summary: Advantages of the Integration of eCATT in the SAP System ... 243
... 6.17 Customer Report from Zürcher Kantonalbank ... 245
7 SAP Test Data Migration Server ... 253
... 7.1 Functions and System Landscape of the SAP TDMS ... 254
... 7.2 Customer Report from Behr GmbH & Co. KG ... 261
8 Coverage Analyzer ... 269
PART III Performance Testing
9 Project Outline of a Performance Test ... 279
... 9.1 Load Test-Stress Test-Volume Test ... 281
... 9.2 Roles in a Performance Test Project ... 282
... 9.3 Phase Model of a Performance Test ... 284
... 9.4 Test Preparation ... 286
... 9.5 Performing the Load Test ... 295
... 9.6 Performing the Stress Test ... 300
... 9.7 Final Report ... 301
10 SAP LoadRunner by Mercury ... 305
... 10.1 Performance Test for Portal Applications ... 306
... 10.2 Customer Report by Sanofi-Aventis ... 311
11 Performance Testing Using SAP GUI Scripting ... 321
... 11.1 SAP GUI Scripting ... 322
... 11.2 Load Test Architecture ... 323
... 11.3 Script Development ... 325
... 11.4 Load Generators ... 327
... 11.5 Execution Log ... 329
... 11.6 Availability of the Consulting Solution ... 329
... 11.7 Customer Report from Universitätsklinikum Würzburg ... 330
12 Monitoring a Performance Test ... 341
... 12.1 Procedure ... 342
... 12.2 Transactions for Technical Monitoring ... 348
Appendix ... 361
Index ... 365