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eCATT #12

Closed tobiashofmann closed 2 weeks ago

tobiashofmann commented 4 months ago

eCATT: extended Computer Aided Test Tool Commit: 4e8c55d69d3e19b7588d68f88dee195ff6d1e934

larshp commented 4 months ago

Would SAP Tosca be the go-to for testing now-a-days?

tobiashofmann commented 4 months ago

Maybe, but it is not from SAP, so it is not included in standard and not ootb available to SAP devs.

Maybe a question is if eCATT is still widely used or being replaced by another tool, therefore not as relevant as it was once? Moving it from USE to HOLD?

pokrakam commented 1 month ago

Maybe, but it is not from SAP, so it is not included in standard and not ootb available to SAP devs.

Typo? SAP bought Tricentis and market it (most annoyingly also in a recent OpenSAP course). We got it as part of RISE on my last project. It is also integrated with Cloud ALM.

But you're right that it is not something developers have access to by default. SAP have been adding more and more unit testing capabilities (e.g. SQL & CDS mocking). So one could argue that the technical uses of eCATT can be replaced by ABAP Unit and the functional uses by Tricentis and various UI-based frameworks.

Personally I only use eCATT's data store when there are many scenarios and outcomes to unit test (Pairwise testing FTW!), but that's about it.

tobiashofmann commented 2 weeks ago

Tricentis was bought by SAP? I do not find this news on the Tricentis press release page nor somehwere else. They do have a strong partnership with SAP and SAP sells their product, therefore the by in SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis. AFAIK this is like an endorsed business solution for testing. Like SAP did with HP Quality Center.

Even when SAP sells it: I would not count it as a SAP software, specially as it does not come out of the box.

tobiashofmann commented 2 weeks ago

Added in SDTR 2024.6

pokrakam commented 2 weeks ago

OK I checked back and you're right, SAP didn't buy them outright but they have some kind of an agreement. Tricentis Test Automation is available "out of the box" with SAP Enterprise Support. Further Tricentis products are available at additional license fees from SAP. They diverted into a bit of a sales pitch in the OpenSAP DevOps course, and since it was all provided by SAP I had misremembered it. Here's one of the slides:

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It's in Week 4 of OpenSAP DevOps course https://open.sap.com/courses/devops1