Are you still manually unit testing your ABAP programs? Are you bothered by the exorbitant amount of time and effort required to complete those tests? Do you dread the drudgery associated with manually preparing those tests for execution? Is the pain and agony you endure while executing those tests about the same as it was the last time you underwent this tedious process? Does this whole experience leave you exhausted once you have succeeded in running all those manual unit tests?
If you answered “Yes” to any of those questions, then perhaps you are willing to consider an alternative, one that can simplify the process, significantly reduce the time it takes to complete it and eliminate virtually all of the associated misery: automating the unit testing of ABAP programs.
It is my guess that there is a large segment of ABAP programmers who remain unaware that automated unit testing is possible with ABAP. Even among those who are aware of it but still do not use it, many of them are under the mistaken impression that it is capable only of testing ABAP code written using the object-oriented programming model. This series of blogs is intended to acquaint you with the process of creating automated unit tests for ABAP programs, particularly for those programs containing not a shred of object-oriented code.