ABAP_to_the_Future

Unit Testing 2.9
So, you can imagine my delight when I wa s playing around in one of the latest
SAP releases and was in SE80 and had typed in half of my program name and
pressed (F4) by reflex. I had not even put in a wild card asterisk, but what should
I see but a dropdown list of results (Figure 2.3).
Figure 2.3 F4 Search Help in SE80: Working at Long Last
Mere words cannot explain how happy this made me. It must be true that little
things please little minds. It turns out that this is available as of release 7.31—but
not everyone knows about it, so it’s worth calling out here.
2.9 Unit Testing
Chapter 3 of this book is going to talk about unit testing in some detail. Here, you
will look at three areas in which the new features in ABAP 7.40 make unit testing
just that little bit easier. Specifically, yo u’ll learn how to create mock classes in
which the original class implemented an interface, how to code the contents of a
test method faster, and how to create complicated mock objects with fewer lines
of code.
2.9.1 Creating Test Doubles Relating to Interfaces
As you’ll recall from Section 2.7.3, interface methods can now be made optional,
so you do not have to redefine them. The same change has been made to the definition
and implementation of test classes, but here the syntax is a little different.
Prior to 7.4, you would have to crea te an empty implem entation for every
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