Detect and resolve changes in BPT

Relevant for: business process tests and flows

This task describes how to run a business process test or flow of your SAP application in Change Detection Mode. This is useful to check if your SAP application has changed and enable OpenText Functional Testing to help you automatically update the test or flow's components with the new steps.

Prerequisites

Before running a test in Change Detection Mode:

Save your test on an ALM server.
In OpenText Functional Testing, install and load the SAP Solutions Add-in.
If you want to view the Change Detection Report directly from ALM, you must have OpenText Functional Testing installed on the same computer.
You must belong to a user group that has permissions for the Run task, and permissions to modify tests and business components.

Start the test run in Change Detection Mode

With a business process test open and selected, in the toolbar, click the Run button down arrow and select Change Detection Run Mode.

OpenText Functional Testing runs the test in the same manner as a normal test run. OpenText Functional Testing is minimized and the test or flow steps are performed on your application. At the end of the test run, the Change Detection Report opens in a separate window.

Update the changed components and steps

Using the report, you can update your components and steps automatically:

In the component tree, select the component for which you want to resolve changes.

Components in which you need to resolve changes are displayed with a icon in the Changes column of the components tree:

Tip: If you want to see only the components needing changes, in the Changes column, click the down arrow and select the Open Changes radio button.
In the right pane, view the details about the needed changes.
If you want to accept the proposed changes, in the lower right corner of the pane, click the Apply Changes button.

In addition, the selected component's report row is updated to show that you have resolved the changes.
In the right pane, select the checkboxes for the steps that require an update.
In the lower right corner of the pane, click Update Steps. OpenText Functional Testing automatically updates the steps in your components in the background.

Note: If you want to apply the changes in the components for the current test only, you should clear the Update changes will affect only current test checkbox. If you do not clear this option, the changes to the components are applied to all tests containing these components.

If components are grouped, when you click the Update changes will affect only current test button presents a warning. If you see this warning, we recommend not manually grouping the components.

Save changed components to your ALM project

After you have updated all the necessary components, in the lower right corner of the Change Detection report, click Save. OpenText Functional Testing saves the updated components in your ALM project.

Note: This process may take some time, depending on the number of updates. Ensure that you do not close OpenText Functional Testing or the Change Detection Report while OpenText Functional Testing is saving the changes.

Optional - view run results for the test run

In addition to reporting changes in the application during a test run, the Change Detection Report gives a basic report on the success or failure of the test. You can view:

Overall run status
Individual component run status
Run status for individual steps in the components

If you see that a business component is reporting a Failed Status, you can double-click the component name and open the Run Results Viewer to open a defect for this component.