Why SAP Automation Matters
As SAP pushes organizations toward S/4HANA migration, automation becomes critical for reducing manual effort and ensuring quality. Tricentis Tosca has emerged as the preferred tool for SAP automation, supporting SAP GUI, Fiori, and S/4HANA, along with 160+ other technologies like Oracle, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. Its cloud-based Tosca version further addresses modern application needs and has fast become the point of discussions in the automation community.
Tosca is a potent tool to automate not only SAP but lots of different enterprise applications like Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow. It supports 160+ technologies from legacy to advanced and a cloud-based Tosca is already in the market to fill the gaps in modern applications which might be missed by desktop-based applications.
In this blog, we offer a complete technical guide on starting your SAP Automation with Tricentis Tosca.
Getting Started: Automating SAP GUI with Tosca
Let’s assume you have Tosca Commander installed and want to automate your SAP GUI instance.
The very first step you need to take cognizance of is make sure that your Tosca commander is interacting with SAP GUI instance. To do this, SAP scripting needs to be enabled both on the server and the corresponding client to be able to steer SAP applications with Tosca.
It means you’re technical telling SAP that an Automation tool is going to be used. This process is divided into 3 steps:
(A) Activating script on the SAP server
(B) Activating script on the SAP client
(C) Activating script on the SAP client
(A) Activating script on the SAP server
You must activate scripting on the server to steer SAP applications via the SAP scripting interface.
Keep in mind that Tricentis recommends enabling scripting only in Development and Quality systems in order to prevent the unintentional execution of automated tests in Production systems.
