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Academy · Test Automation · 200 Practitioner

API and Service Test Automation for OData, SOAP and IDoc

Shows how to automate SAP tests below the user interface: OData and REST services, SOAP services and IDoc-based interfaces. Covers authentication, CSRF tokens for OData writes, ETags and batch requests, building SOAP tests from the WSDL, driving and checking IDocs, using APIs to create and clean test data, and asserting on business outcomes rather than technical success.

  • 68 minutes
  • 5 lessons + quiz
  • Test Automation Engineer, Integration Specialist
Start the course
  1. 01Why test below the UI10 min
  2. 02OData automation19 min
  3. 03SOAP and enterprise services10 min
  4. 04IDoc automation11 min
  5. 05APIs as data factories18 min
  6. QZCourse quiz12 questions

What you’ll be able to do

  • Automate read and write tests against SAP OData services including CSRF token handling
  • Automate SOAP service tests with schema and business assertions
  • Trigger and verify IDoc processing in automated tests
  • Use APIs to create and clean test data for UI tests
  • Explain where API tests replace UI tests in SAP regression

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