Webinar replay: How to develop and release faster on SAP CPI

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So, Tuesday 5., March I did a webinar on how you can make an SAP CPI development flow much faster with the use of Figaf IRT. The goal was to show how much faster using Figaf IRT would be when working with SAP CPI.

I did get some pretty good feedback on the tool and the flow we support, and that it could be useful in a number of different projects. It was pretty fast-paced but demos to show all functionalities.

In the webinar, I show how the tool can make it a lot easier to do some common tasks a lot faster. 

The support part of the process

For the support part of the process, I covered:

  • A preview of our upcoming message monitoring solution that will allow you to give monitor access to individual users and query multiply iflows at the same time.
  • Our alerting mechanism that downloads failed messages or messages marked with a specific sender/receiver. 
  • Setup rules on the alerts so you can notify a business user that something is wrong or sent the message to Jira for people to follow up.
  • How you from the monitoring tool can setup reprocessing of CPI messages where you just interduce two scripts steps into the process

Many options with DevOps

For the DevOps parts I’m covering how:

  • You can document what is changed in an iflow
  • Run an existing test case on the iflow to see nothing is impacted
  • Add new test cases to solve your problem
  • Configure the system across your landscape
  • Transport the individual iflow to your different systems

It takes just 36 minutes but will give you a different of how you are developing SAP CPI.

Are you ready to try IRT Cloud?

So, after reading this blog and perhaps watching the demo video as well, I hope you are ready to try IRT Cloud. That is when you fully understand what the platfrom is able to do for you.

If you have any questions about how to get started or other things about IRT Cloud, do not hesitate to contact me. We are eager to understand which customer requirements that we can solve.

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IRT Transporting – Improve your SAP CPI life

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In this blog, I will cower how IRT Cloud will improve the way you work with transporting.

Before we get started, we need to find a clear definition of what “DevOps” are. According to wikipedia it goes like this:

“DevOps is a set of software development practices that aim to shorten the systems development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives”

Understand what is changed

Track what object is being changed
– Is it a part of the BPMN model
– Is it scripts or mappings
– Is it configuration which is changed

Register changes with business reason

Make a service request in the IRT tool, that allow you to link the changes to the reason.

User can assign changes in iFlows to it:

Test the changes

With the build in testing tool you are able to test the modification you make does not not affect anything unexpected.

You can document what test you have run and the result of them.

iFlow configuration in the landscape

Configure an iflow once and then let IRT handle configuration in the landscape once importing the change:

Transport individual

Be able to import changes into target system. Figaf will import the object into the target system. Then configuration will be applied:

Check out the demo

So, I if want to check out how this work, please take a look at the demo video below:

So, I you ready to try Figaf IRT/Cloud to see, what IRT/Cloud can do for you? I offer a 30 days free trial at https://figaf.com/IRTCloud.

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Transporting SAP CPI content with Figaf IRT

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We want to make it a lot easier to do SAP CPI transports and document changes, and it is also one of the things that i see people struggling with. I mostly also wanted to make it possible to transport individual iFlows, because it makes the process a lot faster; otherwise, you must create some packages to contain it.

A few weeks back i posted an image of me deploying a CPI change after just 40 minutes in production. One of the comments that, yes that is fine you can make changes in production fast if you do not do any change management. We did not have any change management or documentation. I would argue that with the changes you see below we can make it in the same time.

Another pain with transport was that you needed to reconfigure afterward. In Figaf IRT you have a central repository that allows you to configure what values you want across the landscape.

IRT will enable you to see what was before on in IRT. The easy way to do SAP CPI transport with Figaf IRT.


It on the Figaf.com/IRTCloud now and will be in the next release of our onpremish tool figaf.com/IRT soon. We still have some areas that we want to improve with the process, but it is better to get feedback on what you think of the solution. With the approach, we are not able to keep the old versions on the target system.

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Full demo of Figaf on SAP PI/PO

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In this video, I’ll show how the Figaf IRT tool will make it a lot easier to support your SAP PI/PO development. It supports the following process:

  • Look in support incidents for SAP PI
  • Create a ticket that could be similar to an SCR but created and updated in IRT
  • Based on the object in the Ticket IRT find which interfaces need to be tested
  • Run regression tests on the test cases
  • If you want to record new test cases IRT can also make that easy
  • It shows how you can anonymize the data to comply with GDPR or other data privacy
  • Validate the transport on QA/Test system to see if all transported objects work there.

We will make a similar video with a full demo of Figaf on CPI after the next release. 

 

Many integrated functionalities

Our ambition in the ongoing development of Figaf IRT is to create a tool with many integrated functionalities, so developers don´t have to look at different places when they want to solve their problems.  IRT is taking care of all your problems, and our customers say, it is easy to use.

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Casestory: Using Figaf IRT in a migration project

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So, in March 2018 I had the pleasure of having Pieter Atling on the Integration Podcast. Pieter is working on AkzoNobel, where he in his role as a test manager worked with SAP PI/PO and has executed several kinds of testing including regression testing. At the beginning of the project, Pieter was asked to find a tool that could handle some automated testing. He found out that the Figaf Integration Regression Tool was a great solution for AkzoNobel.  I haven´t had the resources to go deeper into the interview before now, but I do think it is interesting because Pieter Atling has some great insights from a customer point of view.

AkzoNobel works all over the world. Stock image.

The tool helps you during a migration project

Pieter thinks that the IRT was a great help during the migration project:

“With help of the IRT tool we found several issues, small issues on field level, fx namespaces were different,
the lookout was not working, something had not migrated correctly. Developers forgot to deploy something. By looking at that, the tool helps you during a
migration project“, he says.

It improves the quality

Pieter also thinks that the IRT has made testing a lot easier:

“Now we are at a stage with approx 500 test cases running in the IRT tooling,
we run the complete test cases over test systems during the night, we can schedule how late
we will run this. So when I come to the office in the morning, I found a report in my mailbox
telling me about the system. This is good, it improves the quality“, he says and continues:

“With the IRT tool, we make sure, that the deployment process between the test system and the quality assurance system
has been done correctly. This ensures, that we do not forget any objects.”

Here you can find the podcast: Testing SAP PI/PO at AkzoNobel.

Many improvements on IRT

As you can see Pieter Atling had great success using the tool. Since the interview we have made many improvements to the Integration Regression Tool, so I should be even more easy to use today.

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