Outbound Web-Service

Key Information

It is now possible to do service virtualization on outbound web-service calls.

In order to do this, you must first activate a new enhancement point in the recording which will capture the outbound web-service calls as linkages against the objects that instigate them. The data captured is the request header and body of the outbound web-service calls.

*Note that there may be more than one outbound web-service call for a given object.

Then, during the playback, a separate enhancement point for outbound web-services must be activated. When the object is triggered by the bot in the playback, any outbound web-service calls will not actually go out to the external system, but will instead be immediately passed back the same data as that in the recording.

*The vast majority of customers running SAP systems will using the RFC protocol for outbound calls to external systems. A smaller percentage of outbound calls will be done via web-services.