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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]]>Introduction
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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]]>Join a special webinar focused on SAP Enterprise Messaging and learn how event driven architecture can change your SAP landscape!
Take part in a special, free webinar hosted by SAP PRESS book authors – SAP Consultant and Developer – Andrzej Halicki (Int4) and senior SAP integration designer and developer – Ricardo Viana (Roche ) and learn:
- What is SAP Enterprise Messaging?
- How to implement event enablement in S/4HANA?
- How SAP EM integrates with SAP Cloud Platform products?
- Check out SAP EM demo
Date: April, 8th
Time: 9 AM and 3 PM (CEST | UTC+2)
SAP Enterprise Messaging
Is there any difference if my company will go for SAP EM rather than CPI/PO? Yes, the difference is fundamental and we can’t consider these tools in one category. SAP EM is event driven and is designed to conduct asynchronous communication with low size data in event driven paradigma. What if I would like to implement SAP EM in my landscape? It depends how the landscape looks like and which products it involves. Let’s remember it requires a different approach to integration in comparison to standard tools.
During our webinar, the hosts – Andrzej and Ricardo will answer all the questions and help you find out which approach suits your company best and why.
They will also present the SAP EM demo and dispel all your doubts at the Q&A panel.
Each participant will enter a drawing for a book!
More about the hosts
Meet our experts:
Andrzej Halicki
Andrzej is an SAP consultant and developer, specializing in SAP Cloud Platform Integration and ABAP development. Since 2019, he has worked on product improvement and development at Int4 and was responsible for projects involving the integration of SAP Cloud Platform Integration and SAP Solution Manager.
Ricardo Viana
Ricardo is a senior SAP integration designer and developer at Roche, where he specializes in SAP products, such as SAP Process Integration and SAP Cloud Platform Integration. He has been working with SAP integration products since 2010. member.
Register for the event and bring your questions!
You can already register for our webinar. Don’t forget to prepare your questions – you can comment and ask the hosts anything all the time, since the beginning of the event.
To register, please:
1. Visit our webinar website.
VISIT REGISTRATION PAGE2. Fill the registration form:
3. That’s it! You’re registered for our webinar.
The registration deadline: April, 8th – 8 AM (CEST | UTC+2)
After registration, you will receive an email with all the necessary information (please check “Promotions” tab if you use GMail). We will also send you a reminder day before and on the day of the webinar (before each session).
Use the “Add to calendar” option to remember about the selected session.
Every registered person will also get a webinar recording and presentation a few days later.
See you soon!
In case of any questions, feel free to contact our Marketing Team: marketing@int4.com.
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]]>In this article you will learn:
- How Int4 IFTT can use external tools to automate manual steps required to test business scenarios
- How to combine Int4 IFTT API Testing and SAP CBTA to test S/4HANA Scenarios involving Fiori apps
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Introduction
As companies are migrating their ERP landscapes to the latest SAP S/4HANA solution, solutions allowing for minimization of business involvement and timeline reduction gain traction. Such migration projects are often complex and challenging in many dimensions, testing being one that is often overlooked. Int4 IFTT can support such projects by providing a cost efficient way to validate that the new solution performs as expected and integrations scenarios (B2B-EDI, integration with internal non- SAP systems, etc.) are still working.
With S/4HANA implementation many companies are reviewing their User Experience strategy and implementing SAP Fiori as the main user interface for accessing the system. What does it mean for testing the end-to-end integration processes? Some of the manual actions are executed now in the web environment and no longer in SAP GUI. In this article, we will show how Int4 IFTT can leverage other testing tools like SAP Component Based Test Automation (CBTA) to automate manual steps in Fiori applications and provide test coverage for complex integrated business processes.
It?s a good time to refresh how Int4 IFTT integrates with SAP Solution Manager Test Suite by using Composite Tests, where Test Suite is the primary testing solution in your landscape used to manage, execute test cases and analyze test results. Int4 IFTT can be as well the leading system and integration Test Suite scripts in the Int4 IFTT test scenarios. We will use this approach going forward.
Here is the outline of the Business process to be automated:
- Purchase Order created with S/4HANA application Manage Purchase Orders
- Inbound Delivery XML message sent from external system to SAP Process Orchestration
- XML message transformed by SAP Process Orchestration to IDOC and posted in S/4HANA
Prerequisites
- Int4 IFTT installed on Solution Manager 7.2
- SAP Solution Manager Configuration for CBTA completed (https://bit.ly/3qcOSA2)
- CBTA Client Installed locally (installation details: https://bit.ly/383cwc4)
- Int4 IFTT landscape with S/4HANA system configured
Step-by-step
1. Go to Solution Manage Launchpad
2. Open Test Repository Tile
3. Create new script selecting CBTA as Test Tool
4. Assign Executable selecting target application
5. Click Launch CBTA
Local CBTA Client should be opened which will start web browser with recording feature enabled.
Record your UI steps and finalize the script.
6. After transferring the recorded steps to Test Repository go to Test Script Steps and expose Purchase Order number as Export parameter
7. You can verify if the UI script was recorded and configured correctly by executing it directly from Test Repository
Test result should indicate “Success” and export parameter PURCHASE_ORDER should contain number of created Order.
8. Go to Int4 IFTT Test Cockpit
9. Create new test case for Purchase Order creation part
a. Interface Type = “Test Suite CBTA”
b. Document number = Name of the script created in step 3
c. Automation Object = Create a new one or use an existing object. Ensure there is a variable defined for Purchase Order number
10. Create new Test Case for Inbound Delivery part
a. Interface Type = “PI GUID E2E Inbound”
b. Document Number = Number of existing message from SAP PI/PO. This can be entered manually or searched using Message Selector
c. Automation Object = Create a new one or use an existing object for this interface. Ensure there is a variable defined for Purchase Order which will replace the value with the new Order number created in CBTA step
d. Parent Id = Test Case Id from step 9
11. Execute the scenario
Int4 IFTT will run CBTA script first and then use the created purchase order to trigger Delivery message in SAP PO. Finally IDOC structure and Inbound delivery data are validated with a reference set.
Summary
The number of business processes driven from external systems grows. Whether that is EDI, Online stores or integration of internal systems, facing the shift from manual operations to integrated business flow without updating your testing toolkit might be a limiting factor.
As presented, Int4 IFTT both allows you to test the integration processes directly, and also test the integrated scenario end-to-end by calling your existing user interface testing tools to support full process execution.
In this example we called the existing SAP Test Suite solution and Int4 IFTT can also call other user interface testing tools on the market. In case you do not wish to invest in additional testing solutions to test your business interfaces, Int4 IFTT can call SAP Test Suite (CBTA), which is available within installation of SAP Solution Manager.
Read also:
1. Int4 IFTT releases and versions
2. Automated SAP EDI testing for S/4HANA conversion projects
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