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IRT 2.2 Release notes Testing of SAP PI, Cloud Integration and Changemanagement

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Yesterday we release the IRT 2.2 to make testing even easier. This release contains a lot of new functionality that makes it a lot easier to test your system.

One of our visions is to make an all round change management tool that allow you to find errors, fix them, document the changes, and test it. We have added the first part of this which is to support the change management, this will allow you to document what is going on in the landscape.  So now we have a link form ICO all the way to message mapping. This will allow us to ensure that you test the interfaces before you make any release.

You can see the video for a presentation here.

 

Cloud Integration. We have now added the option to start testing SAP Cloud Integration (CPI aka HCI) . It is made possible by the new option to trace information so we don’t need to make modifications to your iflows to test it. We can do a regression test with the HTTP adapter now, and hopefully will be able to add some more adapters in next release. For other messages, you need to use the baseline testing, where you will be sending the same message again. We will add more functionality to this testing to make it easier to do regression test for all adapters.

Baseline test cases. This is to make integration with Workflow tools like HPE UFT that already creates a set of number of messages to the SAP PI/PO system. So instead of IRT is sending test messages the sending system is creating the messages. The test would then compare that the same messages are sent and compare that they are processed in the same order. This is also a function we are using when testing with SAP Cloud Integration.

Change Tracking Tool. In the change tracking tool we have added the ability to see all repository objects and what is changed. So you can see where in an object it changed, we will add the option also to do a comparison in UDF and Message mapping in a future version. The cool thing is that you now can see where a message mapping is used and in which ICO/iFlows it is used. This will give users the option to run test report that covers the things that have been changed. We still have to add a few links.

 

If you are ready to start testing your SAP PI/PO/CPI solutions better then have a look at the Figaf IRT tool that allow you much better testing.

Migrate from Seeburger to SAP PI B2B Addon webinar

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Yesterday I hosted a webinar where we covered how to migrate from Seeburger on SAP PI to B2B Addon on SAP PO.

In the webinar, I covered some of the biggest challenges with migration.

  • How to create a business case for it. This is one of the challenges that I cannot help that much with, the main reason would be to the Seeburger Licensing. I’m unclear what it would mean.
  • How to convert the mappings. The message structures have changed, so you will need to update the schemas. It is not much but you need to do it correctly to ensure nothing is changed.
  • How to get rid of the seeburger User-Defined functions. The B2B Add-on have some different approaches to variables and counters, you probably need to upgrade the mappings to ensure that it works smoothly.
  • How to ensure everything is tested correctly. You don’t want to coordinate a migration with your partners more than necessary. So you just want to move the mappings and then ensure you have tested enough in the process.

I have two products that work to improve such a migration

Seeburger Migration Tool to migrate your mappings from the old format to the new. https://figaf.com/SMT

Figaf SAP PI testing tool IRT  https://figaf.com/IRT

To learn more have a look at the webinar replay.

Or have a look at the slides from the presentation

 

IRT 2.0 Release event. Taking SAP PI/PO Testing to the next level

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If I had a big marketing department this invitation would probably look like the unveiling of the new Samsung phone. But since I’m the marketing department it is just some fact. And no cool graphics. I do hope you want to join anyway.

Testing SAP PI/PO is not really fun. It takes way too much time and is challenging. That is the reason I created Figaf IRT. I got the idea for IRT two years and it is time for a new release. We are ready to IRT 2.0 Simpler, Easier and Everywhere.

One of the big challenges has been the deployment of the IRT testing application and the difference between different Java and Netweaver that gave different results. We have therefore spent 3 months planning and rewriting the application to be able to run standalone so customers will be able to run IRT if they have 7.31+.

This enables us to create different models for deployment and license options.

We have a release party on February 8 ( which coincidently also is Daniels birthday).

I will be sharing some of the new features and what it means for licensing models.

You can join by clicking the button below.

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And as with all good events, there is a surprise. I’m burning to share this with you also but want to keep the suspense.

SAP Teched takeaways for non developers

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SAP Teched is not only for geeks, and the impact is not only for those either. I normally only make a presentation for people that already know alot about SAP Integration platform. Integration is an important topic in the future where customers will be using cloud products and mixing them with their existing systems.

I do recommend watching the video below where I’m covering all the things.

The first part is about SAP Strategy for their integration products. It is crucial to understand when working on your own strategy. They use the ISA-M method to learn from what you are doing to what platforms you should be working with in the future.

API is a big topic that is important to how we are opening our landscapes. They are like BAPI where the B is removed. So it is a common language that all developers can understand and use. You can see all the API SAP has created at http://api.sap.com

The integration product PI/PO that most people are using is not the one SAP has most focus on. The biggest focus is on SAP Cloud Platform Integration (Cloud Integration, CPI or what was HCI) the biggest benefit is that you can get pre delivered content if you want to integration with SAP Cloud Products like Ariba or SuccesFactor. Or for E-Invoicing scenarios for some locations.

SAP Leonardo is also a big topic. For Integration there are 3 important topics

  • IoT(Internet of Things) is about connecting billions of devices, manage and analyze data from them. This is one of the things that SAP is focusing on, they have a platform that allow users to handle all the devices.
  • Machine Learning is about finding algorithms for handling complex tasks and automate them. It could be finding what is on a image or how to book a payment. SAP has some pretrained models that can perform some tasks. Customers can take the models and train them on their own data so they match their requirements.
  • Blockchain is also one of the hyped technologies. SAP has a server you can run and connect with your partners. Then blockchain allow you to have one shared truth of what is happening and everybody agrees on it.

You can watch the slides below

https://www.slideshare.net/DanielGraversen/sap-integration-for-non-developers-teched-2017 

IRT 1.4 Testing big messages in SAP PI/PO

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You asked for it. Or our customers asked for it so now we have created it. IRT, our tool to make SAP PI/PO testing easy, has now been upgraded.

I created the following video

We had a customer that requested that we could process 400Mb messages and verify that they worked. We found that the messages about 10Mb were stuck, so we had to find a way around it. The JMS queue we are using, the build into SAP PI/PO has some limits for external clients. So we try to ZIP the payload, and if that is not enough, we save the message in the database on the agent. We can then fetch the message with a web service call later.
The comparison algorithms were using a lot of memory, so we had to refactor them to be able to compare bigger files. For comparing two 1Mb Text documents, it was using 100Mb, so that did not scale. Now the comparison algorithm has been updated to support messages of 200Mb depending on the hardware. Let’s see if the bigger also works with the memory consumption. If the compare fails it will only be on your development system, so no real problem.
We still have one improvement on the UI to show the big files, but it will come in one of the next releases. For now, you can see it in the Excel reports.

The other improvement was about creating unique numbers in each message. Here we are leveraging the option to use the number range module from the B2B Add-on because it enables good flexibility.

Learn more on how you can test your SAP PI/PO better https://figaf.com/irt