Academy · Testing & Quality · 100 Foundations
The SAP Test Landscape: Systems, Clients and Tenants
Explains where testing happens in SAP: development, quality and production tiers, clients, sandboxes and the tenant model of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Testers learn why the same test can pass in one system and fail in another, and how to read the landscape before testing so that every result means something.
- 40 minutes
- 5 lessons + quiz
- Tester / Test Analyst, Test Lead / Test Manager, Test Automation Engineer, Basis / Platform Administrator
What you’ll be able to do
- Describe the purpose of development, quality assurance and production systems in a three-system landscape
- Explain what an SAP client is and why customizing can be client-specific or cross-client
- Identify which system and client a test should run in for unit, integration and acceptance testing
- Explain how transports move changes between systems and why test results depend on import status
- Contrast an on-premise/private landscape with the starter, development, test and production systems of a public cloud edition
Sources and further reading
- Client Concept (lesson, Technical Implementation and Operation II of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite) · SAP Learning
- Transport Requests for Customizing (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Client Control (Change and Transport System) · SAP Help Portal
- Choosing the System Landscape Type (lesson, Administrating SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition) · SAP Learning
- Processing Transports in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Navigating Release Upgrades (lesson, Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition) · SAP Learning
- The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Three-System Landscape · SAP PRESS Blog