Automated Unit Testing with ABAP: A Practical Approach

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J. E. McDonoughAutomated Unit Testing with ABAPhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6951-0_1

1. Introduction

James E. McDonough¹  

(1)

Pennington, NJ, USA

 

It is unlikely you still remember the first unit test you ever ran for an ABAP program you wrote. It is very likely you remember the most recent one. It is also very likely that the first and the last, and indeed all those tests in between, consisted of a manual effort executing the program over and over again using various combinations of values to insure the program produced the expected results. This seems to be the unit testing experience for the overwhelming majority of ABAP programmers, who remain pedestrians ...