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Automated Unit Testing in SAP Data Services. Part II

Friday, August 31st, 2012

The previous article provided an introduction to unit testing in general covering the purpose and benefits of unit testing. This article now looks at a method of unit testing that can be utilised in a SAP DataServices project. First we’ll discuss what objects are candidates for unit testing and then ...

Automated Unit Testing in SAP Data Services. Part I

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Introduction One of the key drivers of this article is that although there are many articles on unit testing in general on internet there are hardly any on unit testing with SAP DataServices. Unit testing has been accepted as a key part of the software development lifecycle for projects building applications ...

SAP Data Services: 10 Reasons for never using Global Variables (and one where you can)

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

In software programming it is widely held that using global variables or other constructs to maintain global state is a poor programming practice[1] and many of those reasons can also be applied to development of jobs in SAP Data Services. The following is my list of 10 reasons for why you ...