Testcomplete support for SAP application
Hi, I wanted know whether testcomplete can automate SAP applications.
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Hi Siva,
Yes, it can.
Most probably, there will be no access to the extended properties and you might have problems with identification of drop-down lists, trees, etc. but the chances are high that some workarounds are possible with the OCR, Text Recognition, MSAA functionality of TestComplete.
The best approach is give it a try.
Yes, it can.
Most probably, there will be no access to the extended properties and you might have problems with identification of drop-down lists, trees, etc. but the chances are high that some workarounds are possible with the OCR, Text Recognition, MSAA functionality of TestComplete.
The best approach is give it a try.
Hi Alex,
Without direct SAP object add-in/support, I would not say that "Yes, it can." is an honest answer.
Sure, I do not argue that you can indeed use text recognition, OCR, etc...but that's true about any environment while the question was clearly directed to confirm or disconfirm the real SAP support from testComplete.
Besides... although walkarounds can be found here and there almost at every test automation projects, IMHO it is unwise to start one knowing that most of your object identifications/operations will have to be built upon them. I think that it is one of the main reasons, people buy UFT, testComplete or Ranorex licenses instead of using Selenium, Sikuli or other freeWare tools with mostly unsupported environments.
Hi,
Documentation keeps mum about SAP support, so I think no special support exists. Helen or Tanya should be able to provide official answer.
As for possibility to test, a lot of depends on the tested application itself.
For example, more then ten years ago, using TestComplete 2 and 3 we automated some application with all controls been custom ones, so TestComplete was able to recognize only windows and buttons. But! This application was initially oriented to support manual data input as best as possible. This resulted in the great shortcuts system, excellent manual navigation in tables, great manual operations with combo-boxes, etc. Using this, we were able to implement 'semi-blind' navigation and control, when test code executed several actions and then verified whether expected result was obtained. And this worked and worked pretty stable and without false negatives/positives.
Another example is with MS Access application (discussed here several years ago): while TestComplete provides no special support for MS Access, using properly set MSAA and following advice provided by Support, I was able to automate sample Access application.
To my knowledge, only UFT provides support for SAP and, if the one has a license for both TestComplete and UFT, the chances with UFT look better. But if only TestComplete license is available, I would try it with SAP, play with MSAA and check if I can access controls that I need for tests.
AlexKaras wrote:Hi,
Documentation keeps mum about SAP support, so I think no special support exists. Helen or Tanya should be able to provide official answer.
As for possibility to test, a lot of depends on the tested application itself.
HKosova, TanyaYatskovska Could you give any pledge on this?
Looking at another thread concerning SAP, it looks like SAP isn't really doing anything unusually unique with UI components, at least for the Lumira Desktop application. That application is using a Chromium Embedded Framework which is supported by TC. I'm guessing that, probably, any SAP application can be supported. The difference is that TC allows you, the tester, to determine methodology for interaction rather than having a "canned" wrapper around SAP application structures.
