Test Gap Analysis for better SAP BW Applications

The core reasons for any changes in the software system would be the need for quality and performance. That is where the Test Gap Analysis comes into play to detect the changes and log every step of execution and thereby extract the transparency and changes involved in the software system. In this blog, let us examine the essentials contained in the Test Gap Analysis and important advantages of implementing Test Gap Analysis. This is a valuable tool that could provide a greater insight into the software.

Why is change analysis?

A newly written code is not necessarily the only code that could contain bugs and errors. The changed code does contain equal probability to accumulate bugs and errors. Thus, the changes in the code and code execution information are very important to make note of during the testing process. In most occasions, the artifacts generated for the software project are much different from the actual code. Thus, a proper change analysis would define the exact applicability of the project with actual data.

Applying Test Gap Analysis in the SAP BW Environment

SAP BW Developer often engages themselves with the project with different kinds of artifacts. Those projects contain various Info providers, Queries, Info Cubes, Data Transformations and Transfer processes.

Graphical Development Environment

The projects that SAP BW Developers engages with, contain interrelations and properties which can be effectively modeled. With the help of Graphical Development Environment (GDE) provided by the vendor, those interrelations and properties can be modeled with precise data.

Routines

In SAP ABAP, Routines are defined as custom code snippets which a code-editor window can attach it to well-defined points. This left the ABAP developers with a challenging environment to track changes around the BW application. A metadata is attached to every element in the custom code snippets which contains appropriate information.

Using Test Gap Analysis, the transactional ABAP systems can reveal the changes in the custom ABAP code developed by the ABAP programmers. For the fact that the development is comprised of transformations, queries in addition to ABAP code, the data containers contain details on the functionalities. Thus, the code can be analyzed to keep track of the original objects and its names.

To conclude the impact of using Test Gap Analysis, the revelation of the changes in various parts of the application is evident. And this overall impact helps the programmers to analyze and improve the transparency of the product and reduces the possibility of bugs.

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