ECATT: SAP's Best Practice For eCATT

Hello All,
If multiple projects are handled on same server, then the master data keep on changing due to which the screen sequences of transactions may change and hence causing the failure of earlier automated eCATT scripts.
What is the best practice recommended by SAP for such situation both in long term as well as short term considering project deadlines?
Thanks & Regards.

Hi SAP Developer,
as far as I know there are no best practice guides for that from SAP.
But from common experience in automating testing one can propose:
For long term:
- organize your processes to be tested aligned as a number of szenarios; do a test case design also incorporating test data to be used; on that base derive (master) data that can be used in common by all szenarios; all other data should be used from single szenarios exclusively;
- use scripts also for creation of (master) data;
- try to use internal number assignment or create numbers in your eCATT script, so that every process run uses new new data accroding it's needs
- try to check customizing using CHETAB or BC Sets, stop the process if important settings are not there
The target of all this is to ensure, that neither customizing nor master data properties can raise different screen sequences.
Another option is to make your scripts more flexible regarding 'small' sequence changes like upcomming popups etc. when using SAPGUI command. This can be achieved by setting the 'Active' option of 'ProcessedScreen' elements.
If you use 'O' like optional, eCATT will only process the ProcessedScreen branch if the programm and dynpro number are matching the screen currently shown by SAP Gui.
Hope I could help a bit.
Best regards
Jens

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