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Single User Performance Testing using SAP Transactions

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Business Needs

Single User Performance Test

Business Benefits

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Business Needs

Performance issues can act as major showstoppers in any

implementation or upgrade bringing considerable loss to the

business.

It is important to measure and identify performance issues prior to

Go-live to mitigate any risks.

Continuous inputs on performance deviations is required by the

implementation teams during realization phase for timely

corrections and feedback to development.

Performance issues can origin mainly from

Software components itself

Due to external factors like memory ,network, concurrent users ,etc.

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Single User Performance Testing

Single User Performance Testing(SUPT) is measurement and benchmarking of key performance

indicators (CPU consumption, response time, data access,..) for usage of critical transactions by a

single user.

It helps to identify potential issues in the ABAP components itself.

It is NOT a substitute for load/stress/volume tests.

ST30 transaction

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Business Benefits

Through SUPT early detection of potential performance issues is

achievable.

No Cost , uses SAP Standard Transactions

Determine how fast some aspect of a system performs, such as

Single user tests

A single transaction test

Understand what parts of the system or workload cause the

system to perform badly

Below are a few key performance indicators like

CPU on application server

Memory on application server

Database accesses

Network transfer

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