The highly secure and
mission-critical nature of enterprise resource planning (ERP) data requires
many SAP customers to test their ERP applications and business processes
regularly. Many SAP customers use expensive customized manual procedures to
test processes and applications. Manual testing is time-consuming, and
frequently requires a team of experienced quality assurance (QA) professionals.
Subject matter experts also often need to spend a lot of time communicating the
process data flow to testers.
SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization
streamlines the creation and maintenance of ERP business process testing.
SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization helps
QA specialists to break down a test into components which are:
SAP Test Acceleration and
Optimization is designed for SAP-GUI-based applications. SAP Test Acceleration
and Optimization users should be experienced quality managers who are familiar
with the SAP Quality Center application by HP, SAP GUI ERP applications, and
business process testing.
SAP Test Acceleration and
Optimization, with SAP Quality Center, dramatically reduces the amount of time
required to build and execute test scripts.
SAP Test Acceleration and
Optimization eliminates the need to create new tests whenever a component
changes. If one component in a group of tests changes, replace that component,
and re-consolidate the tests.
SAP Test Acceleration and
Optimization records component parameters. It provides a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
to save parameters for reuse and maintenance. SAP Test Acceleration and
Optimization helps you to determine the need for repairs, and helps you to
repair your components.
The
SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization inspection process ensures that SAP Test
Acceleration and Optimization tests are more robust during changes. Inspection
examines the parameter in a component, not just the screen object behavior.
The
SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization solution requires products from SAP and
HP QTP,QC
SAP TAO
The SAP
Test Acceleration and Optimization Clent application runs on Windows System. It
Performs 6 Key functions
1 .PFA (Process Flow Analyzer) 2. Inspection/UI Scanner
3. Import/Export 4. Change Analysis
5. Repository 6. Consolidator
License Validation:
- Once
Installation is complete, Double Click on the SAPTAO Icon on the Desktop.
SAPTAO UI Appears.
- Click on
the “Configuration” Link on the top right of the screen and select the
“License” Tab
- Select the
Solution Manager system from the System List z
- Click on
Test SAP Connection (The text box on the right SAP TAO License with Text
Enabled turns Green)
Click on
the Connect Module on the Left hand Side Panel of SAPTAO UI
Select the
SAP Managed system from the list and provide valid credentials
Click on
“Test SAP Connection” Button and then
Click on “Save” Button
The ICON
displaying the selected current Backend system turns Green
Provide
Valid QC Connection details along with Domain and project details and click on
“Save” Button
The ICON
displaying the connection state of QC turns Green
Configuration
Settings
Click on
the Configuration Link and set the following in the respective tabs as
described below.
Inspection /UI Scanner
The
Inspection tab page in
the SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization client selects multiple SAP GUI
screens and transactions for testing, in an easy-to-use interface. It then
determines whether these screens are valid, and sends them to SAP Quality
Center as screen components.
Upload components to SAP
Quality Center To upload the screen components to SAP Quality Center
• If this option is not
selected, the parameters Overwrite components and Delimiter for
Component/Unique Identifier on the Import/Export tab page are used to name new
components.
Component path
• The location of components created during inspection
• Duplicate components are
overwritten without confirmation
UI Scanner:
A plug-in module for HP Quickest
Professional enables you to collect information from one screen at a time, and
sends the screen objects to HP Quality Center as a component. The UI Scanner
scans all objects in the screen including dynamically generated objects. The UI
scanner requires an active Quick Test Professional installation on your local
work station.
Import/export
Import/export exchanges components
between the SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization client and SAP Quality Center.
The import/export module does the following.
Procedure
1. Choose Import/Export tab
page.
2.
Select the required options.
Process flow
analyzer :
The process flow analyzer (PFA)
records all user interactions, and the sequence of screens, in a business
process, and stores them in the SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization
repository. It automates inspection, retrieval of dynamic SAP GUI properties at
runtime, and creation of components.
Procedure
On the PFA
tab page, make the following settings:
The PFA will create a second spreadsheet to
store the recorded outputs.
Do Not Use Screen Components
Whether
screen components are to be inserted in the test. If selected, only default
components will be used. Do not select this option unless required.
Steps for
Process Flow analysis are:-
1. To add a transaction, choose.
2. Select a
transaction e.g. VA01.
Name
for analysis is already populated with time stamp concatenated to it. You may
change it.
3. Choose
“Start” for Process Flow Analysis.
The
transaction is launched on the managed system along with the following PFA
controller.
Execute
the process flow as a business user.
6.
After executing the transaction completely, stop the PFA by clicking on “Stop
the PFA” button in the PFA controller window.
7. A report
is generated which captures the activities performed by business user
Change analysis :
Change analysis analyzes the impact
of changes due to upgrades, SAP patches, or custom development, on a test,
component, or consolidated component. The impact is found by comparing the
results of the technical bill of materials (TBOM), transport requests and SAP
patches.
Set Folder for BPCA
In this
section, you specify:
- The folder created in SAP Quality
Center to store the test set created by BPCA
- Whether to
use BPCA result ID as the test set name
Change analyzer functionality helps
in repairing tests, which are impacted by a software change. SAP Test Acceleration
and Optimization relies on SAP Solution Manager – Business Process Change
Analyzer (BPCA) result. The BPCA result Id could be searched on the basis of a
solution or project
Steps
for Change Analysis:-
1. Input your result Id, and choose
“Change Impact Analysis“.
Repository
The SAP Test Acceleration and
Optimization repository is part of the SAP Solution Manager system, and stores
data required to create, optimize and maintain components and tests. The
repository contains the following
- User
interactions and the sequence of screens in a business process
- Information
specific to SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization, that cannot be retrieved by
other tools
Results or
states during process flow analysis, before the component is created.
The SAP Test
Acceleration and Optimization repository tools comprise the following.
Component
Explorer
The user can
see the list of all the components created by himself for a specified QC Domain
and QC Project.
PFA
Explorer
The user can
search for PFAs created till now, depending on search strings. The user can
specify property to search on. The different properties which are possible to
be searched on are:-
User
Analysis Name
Transaction
System
Client
Date Time
Language
Once the
search is done the user can click on one of the PFA to see more technical
details.
Consolidation
creates a single component from the objects and data in an SAP Quality Center
test. The component contains all the code and screen elements in a test. It
executes much faster than the individual components and helps you to maintain
business processes. Consolidation also takes dependent tests into account.
Procedure
1. Choose
Consolidate tab page
2. Select the
required options.
Option
Create in SAP
Quality
Purpose
Center Folder
The location of consolidated
components in SAP Quality Center
