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_5

5. Automated Unit Testing with ABAP

James E. McDonough¹  

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Pennington, NJ, USA

 

With the concepts underlying xUnit now familiar to us, this next chapter covers how ABAP Unit provides the xUnit capabilities to the ABAP language.

ABAP Unit

ABAP Unit is the implementation of xUnit testing for the ABAP language. It first became available with ABAP release 6.40 (2004). These tests may be written for the following types of components containing ABAP code:

• Executable programs

• Class pools

• Function groups

• Module pools

• Subroutine pools

In conformance with the principles of xUnit testing ...