Administration

In the Administration view, you can make some basic settings for Test Organizer and BW reporting. You can also specify generally valid rules for the TBOM filter and TBOM criticality.

Features

Test Organizer Settings

This is where you can make various central settings for test management. For example, you can define a workflow or set up a release status schema. 

Client–Side Automated Test Tool

You can register a client–side automated test tool (CBTA or a third-party test tool) with which you want to create automatic test cases. 

Third-Party Test Management Tool

You can register a partner tool that you want to use to manage test cases and test plans. 

Test Case Types in SAP Solution Manager

You can adjust types of test cases according to your organization's test strategy. You can, for example, deactivate a specified test case type if the license of a third-party tool has run out.

Test Tool Attributes

Here, you can configure the attributes that a third-party test tool can provide for a test script. 

Test Case Execution E-Mail

You can adjust E-Mail notification templates according to the corporate designs standards of your organization.

You can register users who are to be informed of test results, automatically by e-mail. 

Default Required Time of Test Case Types

You can specify a default time required per test case type. If no other time required is specified in a test case, the system uses the default time required to optimize the test scope.

Reporting (Analytics) Settings

Configure the BW system for BW reporting, and activate BI content. 

TBOM Utilities

Here, you can call up various utilities for creating or editing TBOMs. 

Maintain TBOM Filter

The TBOM filter specifies whether the Business Process Change Analyzer is to ignore specified objects in the TBOM. 

Maintain TBOM Criticality

You can assign criticality values to the objects in the TBOM. 

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Test Repository

The Test Repository gives you access to the Test Composition Environment. In the Test Composition Environment, you can create and edit automated test cases easily:

• You can create test scripts or test configurations for all test tools configured in the system, either eCATT or third-party test tools.
  A test case is actually a test configuration of reusable objects such as test script, system data container, and test data container. Therefore, to create a test case, you create test scripts or test configurations containing test scripts. For more information see Components of Automated Test Cases.
• You can compose a parent eCATT or Component-Based Test Automation test script out of existing test scripts. You define the sequence in which the parent script calls the test scripts (steps). This allows you to reuse existing scripts, create modular test scripts and test extensive processes. 

Activities

You have the following options:

• Create or edit a test script: For more information, see Creating a Test Script in the Test Composition Environment.
• Create or edit a test configuration containing a test data container, a system data container, and test scripts. For more information, see Creating a Test Configuration in the Test Composition Environment.
• To monitor a test execution in detail, you can display the test configuration logs for it. To do so, choose  Executions Logs .
  
  
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Test Evaluation

This view contains an overview of the status and work for test plans, and all information about the corresponding test cases. Various tools are available to evaluate the test plans in more detail.

Features

If there are a large number of test plans, you can filter the test plan overview in the quick criteria maintenance. You can also select test plans, specify them as favorites, and delete them later. These test plans are flagged as favorites in the list.

Before the analysis, we recommend that you update the resource and status data. By choosing Update, you can update the resource and status data immediately. Alternatively, you can schedule a background job for status data.

Depending on the planning and reporting level which you specified for a test plan, the status or resource displayed in the list is flagged as obsolete, if a tester changes the value at a lower level. To recalculate the effort again, choose  Update Planned Resources  or  Update Status Immediately .

There are also the following functions to evaluate test plans:

• Status Analysis
  You get a detailed overview of the status of the test cases assigned to the selected test plan, in the Test Workbench.
• Status Info System
  The Status Info System gives you information about several test plans. The status overview shows the current status.
• Status Report (BW-Based)
  The test plan status report is based on the last data extraction from the SAP Solution Manager system.
  
  
  Note
  The number of test cases in a test plan, with a specified status, in this list, can differ from the number in the BW reports. The difference arises if a test case is performed by several testers. This list sums every test case by status value. The BW report takes repeats of the same test case by different testers, into account. The worst status value of the test case applies.
  
  
• Progress Report
  The progress report is based on the last data extraction from the SAP Solution Manager system.
• Message Report
  The message overview in the Test Workbench contains all messages created in a test plan.
• Test Effort Report
  This test effort report gives you an overview of the test effort and clarifies whether the planned test effort is sufficient or exceeded.

Activities

In the Test Management work center, go to the Test Evaluation view.

If you select test plans, you can:

• Go to the status analysis
• Update effort and status values
• Choose an evaluation and a filter
• Go to the status or message overview
  
  
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Tester Worklist

This view contains an overview of all test packages that have been assigned to you for testing.

Features

You can:

• Open test package to perform the test
• Schedule automatic tests in the foreground or the background
• Display an overview of scheduled automatic test jobs
• Manage and edit test package attachments
• Report errors in test cases
• Display messages for a test package
• Export list of test packages to Excel

At the bottom of the view, the test cases assigned to the selected test package are displayed: You can:

• Tun an automatic test case
• Open the description of a manual test case
• Display the attributes of automatic or manual test cases
• Display and update the messages asigned to a test case
• Change the status of a test case
  
  
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Test Plan Management

With this function you can:

• Create
• Change, copy or delete test plans

Integration

You organize tests after you have created a project structure in Create Business Blueprint. You have Configured, and want to test these configurations by process. When you create a test plan for a project, the default test plan structure is based on the structure of the Business Blueprint that you have previously created for your project.

Features

With test plan management, you can:

• Create, change, or copy test plans
• Delete an individual test plan, or delete several test plans at the same time, after a test campaign, to clean up the system
• Transport test plans
• Divide test plans into test packages and assign them to testers
• Monitor test progress with the status info system, and export test results

With test plan management, you can create test plans that are based on:

• The project structure that you created in the Business Blueprint
• One or more test catalogs

The test plans are the set of all test cases which you need for a specific test phase, and can comprise the following objects:

• Manual test cases
• External applications, for example, third-party test tools or an MS Word document
• CATTs
• eCATT test configurations
• Function module tests

In the Utilities menu you can also:

• See the worklists of individual testers
• Upload and download notes
• Display project data for a project to which a test plan is assigned
• Check the system landscape of a project to which a test plan is assigned

You can create and print a test report which contains, for example, the test case descriptions, messages and status, in the Goto menu.

You can sort the test cases in test sequences within a test package or assign test cases to different testers. For better test execution control, you can set up a workflow that is based on a release status schema.

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Test Preparation

To be able to use the Test Management functions of the work center effectively, you must make certain prparations in your system: The business processes which are affected by the changes are analyzed according to the TBOMs and their filter and criticality settings.

The following preparation is required:

• Assign the scenarios, business processes or process steps to executable entities.
• Create a list of objects (Technical Bill of Materials, TBOM) for every executable entity.
• Define test cases for the scenarios and processes.

This process guides you through the required steps.

Prerequisites

You created a project or solution structure while creating the business blueprint.

The system landscape of the project or solution is configured.

You have at least ST-PI 2008_1 SP03 in the managed system in which your processes run.

You are authorized to change TBOMs. 

Process

1. Complete executable entities and test cases for the relevant nodes of your business processes
2. Check the status of your business processes.
3. Create TBOMs for all executable entities.
   Alternatively, send TBOM recording tasks to the business process expert responsible, who creates the TBOMs.
4. Configure the TBOM filter.
5. Configure the TBOM criticality.

The following additional activities may be required in the preparation phase:

• Delete TBOM

• Lock or unlock TBOM

• Check whether a TBOM is up-to-date
• Update TBOM classification types
• Recalibrate TBOM
• Delete test TBOMS from the database by mass TBOM deletion
• Delete TBOMs not assigned to business processes, from the database, regularly

Result

Your business processes contain test cases and executable entities with current TBOMs.

You have configured the TBOM filter and criticality.

You can now run the Business Process Change Analyzer, and generate the test plans required, from the results.

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