Intelligent playback row selection

Key Information

A common problem during playback’s was that there was no tolerance in the way that bot performed row selections in ALV grids or line selections on ABAP lists. If the data within the SAP system was slightly different, then often the wrong ALV grid row would be selected or the wrong ABAP list line. This lead to many false negatives leading to a greater number of defects.

In this new release of Testimony, the recording will now capture the data within the row(s) of the ALV grid row that was interacted with by the user. Similarly, this is now done for the lines selected in ABAP lists. During the playback, this data is used to more intelligently select the correct row or line.

All of this will lead to more accurate playbacks with less false negatives.

*In additional to capturing the data of the row of ALV grid in the recording, additional information within the ALV grid is also used. The columns that are marked as “keys” are used first to more accurately identify the row in the recording compared to the same row in the playback. If this fails (no rows can be identified), then the raw data is then used.

*If no row/line can be found based upon the data, the final fall back position is to use the same row/line number from the recording.

!We do not currently support tree controls in Testimony and more accurate selection of tree nodes. This is planned for the next release of Testimony or potentially as a patch to this release once ready.