Technical System Landscape

Use

When looking at the eCATT system landscape in the picture below, you can see that eCATT was designed to be operated from a central system. This means, that eCATT itself is managed and started on a central test administration system and accesses applications to be tested via RFC connections (ABAP/HTTP).

The central system must either be a SAP Web Application Server ABAP 6.20 or higher or a SAP Solution Manager System as of Release 3.1. The applications to be tested can run on any system in the landscape (also on the central system itself). Because of its central aspect, eCATT supports integration tests that test business processes running on different components located in different systems.

The user, i. e. the test developer, tester, or test administrator operates the centrally located eCATT from his or her frontend PC via SAP GUI. When SAP GUI Scripting is recorded or replayed, then SAP GUI connects directly to the corresponding tested system.

A great advantage of the central aspect is, that all created objects, this means test case descriptions, test scripts as well as test and system data containers are placed on the central test system. Also the test documentation is managed on the central test system. And as is also shown on the picture, eCATT can be used standalone or in combination with other tools such as the Test Organizer, Test Workbench or SAP Solution Manager.