Integration testing

[Former Member]

Hi,

When we are doing the SAP BW integration testing what exactly we mean

Is it the whole data flow testing ( Through runnning the process chain)

what we exactly need to test: volume of the data? Error message? Post loading activities like activation? etc

Please correct Me if I am wrong.

And when we say performence testing is it a running a report and how much time its taking?

or loading a huge volume of data in to he target and check how much time ita taking?

[Former Member]

Hi Pranita,

Integration testing is an orderly progression of testing in which software elements, hardware elements or both are combined and tested until the entire system has been integrated.

In terms of SAP BW, Integration tests deal mainly with the testing of cross-application process chains in addition to transactions and business processes. The process models and the test cases derived from these form the basis of these tests, the tests that have been mentioned by you are correct examples of integration testing

Performance testing means checking the performance of the system for eg: in case if you have a BWA indexes on a cube & there has been an upgrade in the BWA hardware, then testing the reports for their execution can be considered as an example for performance testing. Also in case if there has been an upgrade where the table space has been increased then checking the time that loading takes or in case if it was earlier loading failed then if the loading completes on time can be considered as an example.

Refer the below link, it will be very helpful:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/600defe0-48ed-2c10-51be-84349d14b...

Thanks

Pawan