How to test Process chain in BW

Hi Guys,
Can U give me some introduction to Process chains and how to test it in BW 3.5
Thanks for Ur time.
Cheers
Senthil

Hi,
A process chain is a defined sequence of interdependent processes required to perform acomplex task in an SAPBW environment. Data maintenance tasks in SAPBW are notrestricted to uploading data. Aggregate rollups, index maintenance, master data and ODS activation, and a variety of other jobs are required to update data, guarantee best-possible performance, and maintain data integrity. Typical SAPBW implementa-tions have complex interdependent networks of jobs in place that run every night, week,or month.Previous releases of SAPBW did not provide an integrated solution for scheduling and monitoring those kinds of job networks. This has changed with the introduction of process chains in release 3.0. Process chains allow you to define complex job networks consisting of standard SAPBW jobs, as well as custom jobs; they support visualizing the job network and centrally controlling and monitoring the processes.
(from "Mastering the SAP BIW")
New Features in BI 2004s Process Chains
/people/mallikarjuna.reddy7/blog/2007/02/08/new-features-in-bi-2004s-process-chains
Designing
/people/vishvesh.bahirat/blog/2006/11/29/bw-process-chain-design
Process chain creation in 2004s - step by step
/people/juergen.noe/blog/2008/01/11/process-chain-creation--step-by-step
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/events/sap-teched-03/using%20process%20chains%20in%20sap%20business%20information%20warehouse
Testing
We need to test the PC chains.
You need to test if the extractions are working fine, data is getting loaded into targets, post load activities like activation, rollup, compression etc are successfull etc.
We schedule / trigger the chains and monitor them. We ensure that all the process types are happening successfully.
One major area we concentrate on is to identify dependcies in the chain. This will ensure less erros and also reduce chain timings by a great extend. Dependencies should be kept to a minimum whereever possible.
Also in cases where we use events/third party shceduling tools to trigger BW chains we check that out.
Thanks,
JituK

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