Course Summary

Agile development methods such as Scrum and Kanban aim at enabling teams to deliver feature increments in short cycles. One of the key elements to doing this efficiently and in high quality is the practice of test automation, which ensures that all functional and regression testing is automated. These tests are written by developers, ideally at the same time as the product code. The key to good test automation is learning to write testable code. There are many benefits to following this development approach, such as better quality code in less time, reduced bug analysis and fix efforts, and being more responsive to changing requirements.

This course will teach you how to write testable code in ABAP, and covers unit testing, test isolation, test-driven development, testing legacy code, and more.

Update: Further Resources

• On some questions and positioning of the openSAP course “Writing testable code”: An article on some often debated questions like "What is the real value of unit testing?", "Is Unit testing really so important?", "Is test-driven-development overhyped?", "Does it work in the real world?" etc.
  
• Introducing Agile Software Engineering in Development: A longer blog post on how to establish agile development in with all its dimensions: technical skills, tools. culture, etc. and some change management tips from our experience at SAP.
  
• The book "Test-driven development with ABAP Objects" is an in-depth treatment of the techniques, patterns but also the strategies for setting up a change and learning program to enable your development teams to move towards truly agile development with the well known benefits of "less bugs and more productivity at the same time".
  
• You want to read more about clean code and ABAP? The community-driven ABAP clean code style guide is now open source.

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• "I liked the way the content was presented, and I wish to see many more courses related to ABAP" Read the original post

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• "This course is excellent in a way that there are requirements from most of the customers about test automation i.e., need of the hour and secondly the traditional way of developing the code can be replaced by ABAP OO and test-driven code. Thank you so much for such a wonderful course." Read the original post

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Course Characteristics

• Starting from: March 13, 2018, 09:00 UTC. (What does this mean?)
• Duration: 6 weeks (4-5 hours per week)
• Final exam: April 24, 2018, 09:00 UTC - May 2, 2018, 09:00 UTC
• Course language: English
• How is an openSAP course structured?

Course Content

Week 1: Introduction to ABAP Unit Testing
Week 2: Test-Driven Development
Week 3: Pair Programming & Writing Testable Code
Week 4: Test Isolation Theory and Practice
Week 5: Dependency Lookup
Week 6: Working with Legacy Code, Tools and Summary

Target Audience

ABAP developers

Course Requirements

ABAP development experience, good knowledge of ABAP Objects

System requirements

To gain maximum benefit from this course you should do the exercises. The exercises consist of sample code and use base code that you will extend. Import the source code as described on the “System information and hands-on exercises” page.

Further Learning

For further learning, we recommend that you check out the ABAP Programming with SAP NetWeaver Learning Journey for developers.