Question:
What if you could give your vendors a self service tool so they could do the testing on their own?
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Service virtualization and testing (SVT) solutions like Int4 IFTT (Certified ABAP add-on for SAP Solution Manager – SAP Solman) provide SAP developers and SAP functional consultants with ways to quickly simulate the interfaces/APIs of any 3rd party, non-SAP systems as well as B2B/EDI partners. Simulating those external systems allows to quickly run test scenarios during the development (DEV) and integration (SIT) phases of the project. This allows your SAP S/4HANA projects to be delivered and tested on time and within budget.
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What are the 3 main problems during SAP S/4HANA transformation projects which can be solved by SVT solutions like Int4 IFTT?
- Decouple – 3rd party systems and EDI partners either don’t exist or are very difficult to reach. This means that testing some of the most crucial SAP business processes depending on those (Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay, or Logistics) will be very complex and time-consuming. That can lead to project budget increases and lower customer satisfaction.
- Eliminate delays – manual creation of mockups is either very time-consuming (transaction WE19) and cannot be reused or does not work at all (in case of outbound IDOC messages, ABAP proxy messages). Working in a decoupled SAP environment is not possible without proper service virtualization.
- Stay in control – the time to create and maintain non-existing, before the SAP S/4HANA project, 3rd party non-SAP systems cause one issue – all SAP developers and Functional consultants need to wait to have their business processes tested.
How can I start using service virtualization & testing solutions for my SAP S/4HANA project?
Int4 IFTT is a script-less SAP API testing tool that secures the growth of companies eliminating the risk related to manual entering of data. Thanks to the service virtualization of connected systems, testing of SAP environment undergoes without third-parties involvement. Int4 IFTT lets you run all tests independently providing you the best conditions for development.
To learn more about int4 IFTT, visit our product page. You can apply for a trial licence of int4 IFTT to discover how our solution might help your business. You may also want to check out our article on SAP Blog to learn more about SVT solutions like Int4 IFTT.
Don’t hesitate to hit us up and arrange a call where we can present to you the benefits of our solution and how it works in detail.
Also don’t forget to join our webinar on April 26, to learn how to simulate any 3rd-party system and EDI partner in no time and remove the delays caused by dependency on those non-SAP applications!
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In this article you will be able to find out how to enable self service testing for SAP S/4HANA projects so everyone who is interested will be able to execute test cases and not only the testing team members with specific skills.
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What is the general problem with test automation for SAP S/4HANA projects?
On most of the typical SAP S/4HANA projects using testing can only be executed in two ways:
a) Member of a test team with specific test tool access and skills can run it
b) Testing can be run automatically in the background
What it means is that the majority of people involved in the SAP project cannot use any kind of test automation on their own, without asking the teams for help.
Why would you want to give access to test automation on SAP projects to all users?
Imagine you’re a retail or automotive company and have a huge purchasing organization using EDI to receive all inbound Purchase Orders from hundreds of your vendors. Each of your vendors has it’s own IT landscape where they do many IT projects so they ask you to send or validate EDI messages many times everyday. In order to help your vendors you need to maintain a large testing team whose only purpose is to communicate with your B2B partners to send them new EDI test messages and validate their own which are sent to your system.
How to implement Self Service testing (Citizen testing) for SAP S/4HANA projects?
With different communicators like MS Teams, Slack, chatbots like SAP Conversational AI SAP project members or B2B partners can communicate much more easily but why not use the same tools to allow them to communicate with SAP Testing tools? In case you need to speed up your testing and allow your SAP project members or B2B partners the possibility to run testing on their own you can simply create a BOT who will be executing the test cases for them. With Int4 IFTT we’ve already implemented such solutions for Slack (Figure 1)
Figure 1 – Slack bot to execute test cases for SAP S/4HANA projects
and SAP Conversational AI chatbot – Figure 2
Figure 2 – SAP Conversational AI chatbot – self service testing
Demo of the SAP Conversational AI chatbot self service testing
Summary
This approach enables a complete self service testing giving anyone the possibility to run a specific set of test cases eliminating the need to have special tools installed and special skill sets.
Let’s make testing be available to everyone with citizen testing!
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]]>Your Move to SAP S/4HANA 2020 – virtual summit
Join SAPinsider’s Your Move to SAP S/4HANA Summit and take the great opportunity to learn from thought leaders, product experts, analysts and SAP Mentors from all over the world. This year’s topic – SAP S/4HANA is one of the most important projects and decisions faced by the members of SAP Community. The speakers will walk you through every phase of your decision and project journey – from the business case preparation to the project go-live.
Automate interface testing in the SAP S/4HANA conversion projects
I’d like to invite you to join my presentation: “Automate interface testing in the SAP S/4HANA conversion projects”.
I will speak about the SAP Application Interfaces that are the perfect candidates for automated testing in the S/4HANA conversion projects. You can read about the topic of my session on the SAP Insider’s blog.
I hope you will be there with me! See you on November 17 – 19th.
Fill the form and get the link to the recording of the webinar “Automated SAP API Testing”
hosted by the authors of SAP PRESS E-Bite
“Testing SAP APIs: Strategy and Execution”.
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]]>PIMON 2020 user group conference on the SAP Neo to SAP Cloud Foundry migrations
Two days ago, on the Int4 Blog, I shared the article with the video with the lecture that I gave together with Eng Swee Yeoh at the PIMON – Russian SAP User Group for SAP Integration. The topic of our first presentation was “SAP PO to SAP CPI migration – lessons learned”. Today, I would like to present to you the next video, with the second topic explained by us during our session at the PIMON: “Automated testing of SAP Neo to SAP Cloud Foundry migrations”. You’ll find it below. Enjoy your watching and learning!
Watch the video and learn about automated testing of SAP Neo to SAP Cloud Foundry migrations
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