Prerequisites and installation

The Validate tool is supplied to the customers in the form of a transport requests with all available functionalities included. Datavard’s Reuse Library is also provided together with Validate and is necessary for the customers that did not receive it yet with other Datavard tools.

All users working with Validate should have authorization “DVD_KATE” assigned, that is included in Validate installation transports.

Validate data images contain information from all tested InfoProviders, Queries and Tables. Customer should be aware that data in Validate are by default unprotected in terms of authorization access. See Settings section for more information how the data can be protected from unauthorized access.

Validate Restrictions

Validate Section	Prerequisites
General	Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 machine SAP BW 7.0 to 7.5 (Recommended 7.01 or higher)
Dashboard	Internet Explorer 8 or more (9 or more recommended)
Test Case Document, Status Document	MS Word (Office 2007 – Office 2016)
Test Plan Report	MS Word (Office 2007 – Office 2016)
Web Template Test Case	Internet Explorer 8 or more with: ActiveX enable Scripting enabled MS Excel (Office 2007 – Office 2016, 32-64 bit) Web Templates newer than 3.5 version
Web Intelligence Test Case	Internet Explorer 8 or more with: ActiveX enabled Scripting enabled MS Excel (Office 2007 – Office 2016, 32-64 bit) SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 Support Pack 6
ListCube and DrillDown Test Case	For NLS data testing, SAP 7.3 or more needed
DTP Test Case	Transformation with source: InfoCube, DataSource and DSO are supported Transformation with target: InfoCube, DSO and WODS are supported
Frontend Testing	Scripting enabled on server for ‘sapgui/user_scripting’ parameter Activated scripting for SAP GUI without notifications Disabled SAP GUI security settings on test execution machine
BEx Analyzer Testing	BI AddOn 7.X (based on 7.40) - for Support Package 9 use patch BI740SP09P_910-20012040.EXE Excel add-in BExAnalyzer.xla added to Excel Add-ins

Validate contains tables that are client dependent. Therefore it is required that the Validate transport is imported into the system using the same client where the users will be working with the tool.

Step by step installation

1. Validate installation package is set of the following transports:

Reuse Library (part of distribution package)
Datavard Validate Core
Datavard Validate Backend [BW]
Datavard Validate Frontend [FT]

Required transports must be copied into Transport Directory of a target SAP system.

2. Access Transport Management System by the entering the transaction STMS.

_{Transport Management System}

3. Select the target system.

_{Target system selection}

4. Add the particular transports via menu Extras -> Other Request -> Add.

_{Transport selection}

5. Select transports one by one in the required order and import then by clicking the icon .

6. Access Datavard Validate Cockpit by entering the transaction /DVD/VALIDATE in the target system.

7. Go to the title bar, click on Datavard button and in the popup menu select Datavard Validate – License.

_{Insert/Change license}

9. Click the button "Copy to clipboard" to obtain the data required for license generation and send them to DataVard consultant by mail.

10. Insert the valid license key and "Valid to" date to the screen from the previous point.

Initial Validate Setup

Validate supports several Test Case types, not all of which may be relevant for you. Therefore, the customization transaction /DVD/VALIDATE_SETUP provides options to only display the Test Cases that are relevant.

Note

After first installing Validate, this transaction needs to be customized according to customer’s preferences.

_{Validate setup}

Validate Restrictions

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