Export Function Group or Funtion Module

Dear all,
I'm new in ABAP development. I had a set of function module inside the same function group and i want to test it in another sandbox system. Since, there is no transport routing between the development and sandbox server. Is there any faster way to export the whole function group content to another system??
Regards,
Kit

Hi Chun..
you can do One thing to achieve this :
In the Dev system :
Tcode SE37: Open the Source code of The Function Group.
Copy the Souce code of the Main program and also Each include in this Function group to Notepad files.
Note: Function modules are stored as includes in a Function group.
In the Sandbox system:
Tcode SE37: Create a function Group with the Same name.
Copy all the includes and source code in this system.
Activate them.
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EXPORTING
I_INTERFACE_CHECK                 = ' '
I_BYPASSING_BUFFER                = ' '
I_BUFFER_ACTIVE                   = ' '
I_CALLBACK_PROGRAM                = ' '
I_CALLBACK_PF_STATUS_SET          = ' '
I_CALLBACK_USER_COMMAND           = ' '
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I_CALLBACK_HTML_END_OF_LIST       = ' '
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I_BACKGROUND_ID                   = ' '
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I_GRID_SETTINGS                   =
IS_LAYOUT                         =
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IT_EXCLUDING                      =
IT_SPECIAL_GROUPS                 =
IT_SORT                           =
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IS_SEL_HIDE                       =
I_DEFAULT                         = 'X'
I_SAVE                            = ' '
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IT_EVENT_EXIT                     =
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I_HTML_HEIGHT_TOP                 = 0
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