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Lets design a test case to change the Name of an employee in SAP system
To create an effective test case, you must
Any Pre-requisites
Important Note
SAP is a humungous system with endless variations. Its neither feasible nor
cost-effective to check all possible variations and combinations of test
parameter inputs in SAP system.
As in above example , a tester could have verified change in Last Name, Date of
Birth, Address, Pin Code, City , State, Country, change in permanent ,
temporary, work address etc.
A Tester needs to adopt strategies reduce the number of test cases without
sacrificing coverage. Examples of such strategies include boundary value
analysis, equivalence partitioning & orthogonal arrays.
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Automation Tools
The methodology and approaches are more important than the chosen test
tool. When you think about testing SAP application, some tools comes in mind
naturally like SAP TAO, eCATT, QTP etc.
ECATT is used to create and execute functional tests for SAP. ECATT is an in-built
tool that comes bundled with SAP with a primary objective of automated testing
of SAP business processes.
ECATT useful features
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Test updates
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SAP TAO
SAP released the automation tool SAP TAO in collaboration with Focus
Frame(now acquired by Hexaware).
SAP TAO wraps up QTP and QC where QTP acts as execution engine and test
scenarios are created and driven from QC through business components. SAP
TAO automates generation of test components for end to end scenarios. SAP
TAO and HPQC setup do have some benefits compare to other testing tool there
is a huge corporate support for both HP and SAP software products.
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Load Runner (Performance Test SAP ECC amongst other SAP applications)
recommended by SAP
IBM Rational Robot (Can test wide variety of SAP applications)
Conclusion
SAP testing offers tremendous career opportunities for QA enthusiasts. Its a
relatively easy way to break into the highly regarded SAP Consultant arena.