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10.4. Sound Script Development Practices

I encourage all of my SAP testing customers to use a template or framework of sorts to help give structure to their scripts. Like following good programming rules, scripting is more easily performed (and scripts are more easily maintained!) when a common format and consistent approaches are used during the script development phase. One of the most common development practices that will save you time while helping you stay organized is to create a standard SAP login process, for example, which is covered in depth later in this chapter. Other general development considerations in creating a useful template include the following:

• Always leverage the ability of a script to send a message explaining the progress ...