Preparing to Use an External Tool with eCATT

Use

For up-to-date information, see SAP Note 519858.

An external tool must be:

Certified against the BC-eCATT interface. Certification should cover the target release as well as the user interface to be tested.
Installed on the front-end machine that you run the tests on.
Registered on the backend system that eCATT runs on. This is usually done by the system administrator. Maintain Customizing table ECCUST_ET for the registration. You can maintain the table manually or add entries using the function module SET_EXTERNAL_TOOL of transaction SE37. You should provide the following information:
- A working name for the tool
- The PROG_ID of the test tool's certified interface (this is case-sensitive)
- A description of the tool
- The local database of the tool, if it has one
The external tool requires a service user in order to communicate with eCATT. To do this, run the program ECATT_GENERATE_ET_USER from transaction SE38.

Note

The user name and password of the service user are not only used to create the user account, but must be stored as a copy in secure storage for technical reasons. This requires an update of the secure storage in case the user account is changed.

The report displays the status of the current configuration on the initial screen.

If you have not started the external tool from within eCATT, you need the role SAP_ECET in your user profile to be able to save and load test scripts to and from eCATT.