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Managing Test Plans

Quick Start Guide » Test Plan and System Connections » Managing Test Plans

As well as maintaining Test Plans from the Overview -> Change Plan screen (as previously shown) it is also possible to maintain them without first having to select the individual plan. Navigate to Test Plans item from the Configuration section. You will see a list of…

Creating a Test Plan

Quick Start Guide » Test Plan and System Connections » Creating a Test Plan

Access Testimony Once logged into the Testimony central system, enter transaction /n/bti/aut. This will display the Testimony main menu. To create a new blank plan, select the create button You will be presented with a screen where you enter a test plan name…

Test Plan and System Connections

Quick Start Guide » Test Plan and System Connections

Overview The Test Plan in Testimony is the “container” for all testing activities that take place within Testimony. Each Test Plan can be configured to represent a regression test cycle such as a Monthly Release, Project or SAP Upgrade undergoing testing. You can…

Product Overview

Testimony is a one of a kind, digital regression test generation and execution product developed by Basis Technologies. It is installed on and operates within the SAP ABAP stack and is particularly used to reduce the duration and cost of regression testing SAP…

Authorisations

Quick Start Guide » Test Plan and System Connections » Authorisations

Testimony comes with three internal roles: /BTI/AUT_ADMIN: The test plan administrator /BTI/AUT_TEST_MANAGER: The test manager /BTI/AUT_TESTER: A tester role Each test plan must have at least one administrator and by default the user who creates a test plan is…

Building the Execution Queue

Quick Start Guide » Building the Execution Queue

Overview The test scripts that have been created in the test repository must be transferred to the execution queue in preparation for the playback process. For a given Test Plan, only a single active execution queue can exist. Historical execution queues can also be…

Technical Overview

Product Overview » Technical Overview

The following steps provide an overview at a more technical level of how the Testimony product operates. Installation Process Testimony is installed as a third-party add-on solution to a central ABAP system (typically your SAP Solution Manager system). Transports…

Quick Start Guide

The quick start guide is to be used after installation and includes the key basic steps required to create a recording and a playback. Please check the installation guide here if that process is not complete. It details the process steps required to allow you to use…

Preparing Playback

Quick Start Guide » Performing a Playback » Preparing Playback

Overview When you are ready to run a test phase leveraging the Playback capability in Testimony, you need to first prepare the Target system. Process Steps Select Test Plan to use Activate enhancements – Prepares the system for playback of all…

Review Recordings/Transfer to Repository

Quick Start Guide » Review Recordings/Transfer to Repository

Verifying that recording has captured activity After the recording has been completed, the captured recordings will be moved from the source systems into the central system. You are then able to review what has been captured. To check that your recording has captured…

Analyzing Coverage

Quick Start Guide » Analyzing Coverage

Overview The recording process has effectively generated an entire test script library covering over N% of the customer’s actual SAP system usage. The amount of coverage depends greatly on the length of the recording as well as the particular point in the…

System Setup

Quick Start Guide » Test Plan and System Connections » System Setup

Select Test Plan to change Use the drop down menu to select your newly created Test Plan and click the Tick. Now you can click Change Plan Systems In the main window, you will see the Test Plan header information. Select the Systems tab and click the Create…

Performing a Recording

Quick Start Guide » Performing a Recording

Overview The Recording phase can occur once a Test Plan has been created with the associated Source and Target systems identified. It’s important to have an understanding of the anticipated activity load on the source system to help guide the amount of timefor…

Recording Preparation

Quick Start Guide » Performing a Recording » Recording Preparation

Overview When you are ready to run a test phase leveraging the recording / learning capability in Testimony, you need to first prepare the source systems. Process Steps Select Test Plan to use Generate Inbound RFC Capture – Prepares for inbound RFC calls to…

Review Playback Results

Quick Start Guide » Review Playback Results

Overview When Testimony records the live production system(s), it captures “inputs”, “outputs” and certain “linkages” that occur in-between. When the playback is repeated into the test system(s), Testimony will automatically check…

Start Playback

Quick Start Guide » Performing a Playback » Start Playback

Overview Once the execution queue is built from the repository, the target system is prepared and the Bots are started, the execution queue can be started Process Steps Select Test Plan to use Navigate to the Execution Queue Select Standard Scripts or Filtered…

Glossary

Bot The bot is an executable which resides on a windows machine (normally a virtual machine). During playback the bot logs on as the recorded user and executes that user’s transactions. The requirements for bot setup can be found here. Central System This is the…