Manual testing of SAP systems is challenging due to the complexity of SAP and heavy reliance on data. Test automation is limited due to data dependencies and frequent process changes. As a result, manual testing plays a key role but is underserved by tools. Deciding what to test involves balancing cost and risk, while creating test scenarios is time-consuming without standardization. Exploratory testing by business users provides flexibility but limits documentation for developers. Overall, better tools are needed to optimize the manual testing process for SAP systems.
At SQA Solution the objectives of SAP System Testing are to verify that the installed system, which includes the SAP software, custom code and manual procedures, perform per business requirements:
Executes as specified and without error.
Validates with the users and management that the delivered system performs in accordance with the stated system requirements.
Ensures that the system works with other existing systems, including but not limited to interfaces, conversions, and reports.
SAP Testing with SolMan and SAP Quality CenterLaxmi2121
This Presentation introduces you to the latest testing techniques using tools and capabilities of SAP Solution Manager along with HP’s Quality Center and gives you strategies and best practices to evaluate and improve your integrated testing procedures and environments.
This document discusses SAP testing services provided by Technosoft. It covers why structured testing is important for SAP systems, the types of testing services offered, including testing throughout the software development lifecycle. It also describes Technosoft's testing methodology, focus on test automation, and the benefits they provide to clients.
This document discusses testing and quality assurance for ERP modules. It provides an overview of the testing process roadmap, including establishing requirements and project scope, test planning, case development, different types of testing like unit, integration and user acceptance testing. It also outlines the personnel involved in testing like QA managers, analysts, writers. Metrics for test development and execution are also covered.
Verification ensures software meets specifications, while validation ensures it meets user needs. Both establish software fitness for purpose. Verification includes static techniques like inspections and formal methods to check conformance pre-implementation. Validation uses dynamic testing post-implementation. Techniques include defect testing to find inconsistencies, and validation testing to ensure requirements fulfillment. Careful planning via test plans is needed to effectively verify and validate cost-efficiently. The Cleanroom methodology applies formal specifications and inspections statically to develop defect-free software incrementally.
Test Automation: A Roadmap For SucesssDavid O'Dowd
The document outlines a roadmap for successful test automation, including steps to plan an automation framework, select an appropriate automation tool considering requirements and constraints, and implement a strategy for test selection, prioritization, and management of the automation project. It also provides examples of applying the roadmap through SQS case studies and addresses questions about the automation process.
The document discusses software testing and provides details on various aspects of software testing such as:
1) The objectives of software testing including uncovering errors, demonstrating software matches requirements, and validating quality with minimum cost.
2) Different levels of software testing from unit to integration to system testing.
3) Key aspects of software testing like test plans, test cases, test types (black box vs white box), and testing methodologies.
At SQA Solution the objectives of SAP System Testing are to verify that the installed system, which includes the SAP software, custom code and manual procedures, perform per business requirements:
Executes as specified and without error.
Validates with the users and management that the delivered system performs in accordance with the stated system requirements.
Ensures that the system works with other existing systems, including but not limited to interfaces, conversions, and reports.
SAP Testing with SolMan and SAP Quality CenterLaxmi2121
This Presentation introduces you to the latest testing techniques using tools and capabilities of SAP Solution Manager along with HP’s Quality Center and gives you strategies and best practices to evaluate and improve your integrated testing procedures and environments.
This document discusses SAP testing services provided by Technosoft. It covers why structured testing is important for SAP systems, the types of testing services offered, including testing throughout the software development lifecycle. It also describes Technosoft's testing methodology, focus on test automation, and the benefits they provide to clients.
This document discusses testing and quality assurance for ERP modules. It provides an overview of the testing process roadmap, including establishing requirements and project scope, test planning, case development, different types of testing like unit, integration and user acceptance testing. It also outlines the personnel involved in testing like QA managers, analysts, writers. Metrics for test development and execution are also covered.
Verification ensures software meets specifications, while validation ensures it meets user needs. Both establish software fitness for purpose. Verification includes static techniques like inspections and formal methods to check conformance pre-implementation. Validation uses dynamic testing post-implementation. Techniques include defect testing to find inconsistencies, and validation testing to ensure requirements fulfillment. Careful planning via test plans is needed to effectively verify and validate cost-efficiently. The Cleanroom methodology applies formal specifications and inspections statically to develop defect-free software incrementally.
Test Automation: A Roadmap For SucesssDavid O'Dowd
The document outlines a roadmap for successful test automation, including steps to plan an automation framework, select an appropriate automation tool considering requirements and constraints, and implement a strategy for test selection, prioritization, and management of the automation project. It also provides examples of applying the roadmap through SQS case studies and addresses questions about the automation process.
The document discusses software testing and provides details on various aspects of software testing such as:
1) The objectives of software testing including uncovering errors, demonstrating software matches requirements, and validating quality with minimum cost.
2) Different levels of software testing from unit to integration to system testing.
3) Key aspects of software testing like test plans, test cases, test types (black box vs white box), and testing methodologies.
The document discusses SAP's AcceleratedSAP methodology for implementing SAP solutions. It describes the five phases of the methodology - Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support. Each phase has specific goals and deliverables aimed at successfully implementing SAP and achieving business benefits. The methodology provides structure, guidance, and tools to help projects be on time, on budget and deliver business goals.
The document discusses software testing practices and processes. It covers topics like unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, and different testing levels. Good testing practices include writing test cases for valid and invalid inputs, thoroughly inspecting test results, and assigning experienced people to testing. The testing process involves test planning, test case development, test execution, and reporting results in test reports.
This document discusses test automation frameworks. It introduces test automation frameworks and explains that they provide an environment for executing automated test cases. It then describes four main types of test automation frameworks: modular, data-driven, keyword-driven, and hybrid. The modular framework uses independent test scripts for each module or function. Data-driven frameworks store test data externally and load it into scripts. Keyword-driven frameworks represent tests as series of actions or keywords. Hybrid frameworks combine features of the other three for increased flexibility.
The document provides guidance on conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) for a business team testing a new web application. It outlines the UAT process, including planning the test, defining roles and responsibilities, guidelines for testers, managing defects found, and finalizing testing before moving the application to live production. The goal of UAT is to ensure the application meets business needs and functions as intended before launch.
Time based progress analysis in project system (revenue recognition) sap blogsVenu Vemula
This document discusses using time-based progress analysis in SAP Project System for revenue recognition over the duration of maintenance contracts. It describes the master data setup needed, including defining a results analysis key and measurement method. It also outlines the monthly closing steps to calculate recognized revenue and deferred revenue based on the time elapsed. Recognized revenue is transferred to financial accounting via settlement.
Integration testing tests the interactions between software components, systems, and interfaces after component testing. It checks communication between two or more components without testing individual functions, and can include performance testing. Approaches include big bang which integrates all at once, incremental which integrates components one by one, and sandwich which starts from the middle layer. The incremental approach can be top-down, bottom-up, or functional.
This document provides guidance on conducting SAP license audits and measuring SAP systems for licensing purposes. It describes the process of classifying users, measuring engines, consolidating results, and transferring data to SAP. The document also defines various contractual user types and explains how to use the License Administration Workbench tool to combine measurement data.
Regression testing is testing performed after changes to a system to detect whether new errors were introduced or old bugs have reappeared. It should be done after changes to requirements, new features added, defect fixes, or performance improvements. There are various strategies for regression testing including re-running all tests, test selection, test prioritization, and focusing on areas like frequently failing tests or recently changed code. While regression testing helps ensure system quality, managing large test suites over time poses challenges in minimizing tests while achieving coverage. Automating regression testing can help address these challenges.
Difference between functional testing and non functional testingpooja deshmukh
Up till now, you must have seen separate articles for Functional Testing and Non-Functional testing. In any case, in today’s article we will see the real distinction between Functional Testing and Non-Functional Testing.
Sap implementation project, rollout project, supporting project, upgrading pr...Abdulrahman Abdulrahim
This document discusses different types of SAP projects including implementation projects, rollout projects, supporting projects, and upgrading projects. It focuses on implementation projects providing additional details about what they entail and how they are executed.
SAP Performance Testing Best Practice Guide v1.0Argos
This document provides best practices for performance testing SAP R3 applications. It outlines the key phases of performance testing including planning, building test scripts, execution, and analysis. The planning phase involves identifying critical transactions, volumes, user loads, and environments. Test scripts are built to simulate user workflows and transactions. Execution involves running tests in silos for online and batch processes, as well as combined. Various SAP monitors and tools are used for analysis to evaluate system performance against service level objectives. The best practices covered aim to help ensure effective performance testing of SAP applications.
After doing testing on multiple Agile projects, I have come to realize certain aspects about the process and techniques that are common across projects. Some things I have learned along the way, some, by reflection on the mistakes / sub-optimal things that I did.
I have written and published my thoughts around the "Agile QA Process", more particularly what techniques can be used to test effectively in the Iterations.
Worksoft Certify is an automated testing tool founded in 1998 that aims to reduce testing time and costs. It uses code-free automation to simplify testing for both technical and non-technical users. The tool integrates testing into development cycles earlier and enables cross-platform testing. It has been shown to significantly reduce training time, improve design and test development speed, and make maintenance more efficient compared to traditional scripting tools.
Agile Testing: The Role Of The Agile TesterDeclan Whelan
This presentation provides an overview of the role of testers on agile teams.
In essence, the differences between testers and developers should blur so that focus is the whole team completing stories and delivering value.
Testers can add more value on agile teams by contributing earlier and moving from defect detection to defect prevention.
Performance Testing for SAP ApplicationsGlobe Testing
The document discusses SAP performance testing using HP software solutions. It provides an overview of HP Quality Center and LoadRunner for managing requirements, automating testing, and simulating load to identify bottlenecks. Integration is described between these tools and SAP Solution Manager to facilitate testing of SAP environments. Specific protocols and features for testing SAP applications are also covered.
Software Testing Process, Testing Automation and Software Testing TrendsKMS Technology
This is the slide deck that KMS Technology's experts shared useful information about latest and greatest achievements of software testing field with lecturers of HCMC University of Industry.
Sap bpc nw 10.0 consolidations ( ic elimination) implementation guide v1 pJothi Periasamy
During period close or month end close or quarterly close the accounting concepts, the revenue generated within the group by exchanging the goods and services with affiliated companies needs to be eliminated.
All Inter-Company activities and balances should be eliminated within in a group when the group reports the financial results of entities within the group. In any given group, the entities and the partner doing business with should only be present. For this unique requirement, the IC Elimination process follows the concept called “posting at first common parent”.
Jothi Periasamy
Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.
This document provides a step-by-step procedure for testing an SAP BW solution. It outlines the testing approaches, including unit, integration, functional, and regression testing. It describes testing the connectivity, data flows, objects, and custom code. Challenges include integrating BW with other systems and extensive customization. Reconciliation is performed between BW and source systems like ECC as well as within BW layers and target systems like BOBJ.
Automation testing involves automating manual testing processes using software tools to execute test scripts and compare expected and actual results. There are different types of automation frameworks including data-driven, keyword-driven, modular, and hybrid frameworks. Implementing an automation framework involves 10 steps: identifying the testing scope and needs, evaluating tools, designing the framework, developing and populating test data, and configuring schedulers.
The document discusses SAP's AcceleratedSAP methodology for implementing SAP solutions. It describes the five phases of the methodology - Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, and Go Live & Support. Each phase has specific goals and deliverables aimed at successfully implementing SAP and achieving business benefits. The methodology provides structure, guidance, and tools to help projects be on time, on budget and deliver business goals.
The document discusses software testing practices and processes. It covers topics like unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, and different testing levels. Good testing practices include writing test cases for valid and invalid inputs, thoroughly inspecting test results, and assigning experienced people to testing. The testing process involves test planning, test case development, test execution, and reporting results in test reports.
This document discusses test automation frameworks. It introduces test automation frameworks and explains that they provide an environment for executing automated test cases. It then describes four main types of test automation frameworks: modular, data-driven, keyword-driven, and hybrid. The modular framework uses independent test scripts for each module or function. Data-driven frameworks store test data externally and load it into scripts. Keyword-driven frameworks represent tests as series of actions or keywords. Hybrid frameworks combine features of the other three for increased flexibility.
The document provides guidance on conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) for a business team testing a new web application. It outlines the UAT process, including planning the test, defining roles and responsibilities, guidelines for testers, managing defects found, and finalizing testing before moving the application to live production. The goal of UAT is to ensure the application meets business needs and functions as intended before launch.
Time based progress analysis in project system (revenue recognition) sap blogsVenu Vemula
This document discusses using time-based progress analysis in SAP Project System for revenue recognition over the duration of maintenance contracts. It describes the master data setup needed, including defining a results analysis key and measurement method. It also outlines the monthly closing steps to calculate recognized revenue and deferred revenue based on the time elapsed. Recognized revenue is transferred to financial accounting via settlement.
Integration testing tests the interactions between software components, systems, and interfaces after component testing. It checks communication between two or more components without testing individual functions, and can include performance testing. Approaches include big bang which integrates all at once, incremental which integrates components one by one, and sandwich which starts from the middle layer. The incremental approach can be top-down, bottom-up, or functional.
This document provides guidance on conducting SAP license audits and measuring SAP systems for licensing purposes. It describes the process of classifying users, measuring engines, consolidating results, and transferring data to SAP. The document also defines various contractual user types and explains how to use the License Administration Workbench tool to combine measurement data.
Regression testing is testing performed after changes to a system to detect whether new errors were introduced or old bugs have reappeared. It should be done after changes to requirements, new features added, defect fixes, or performance improvements. There are various strategies for regression testing including re-running all tests, test selection, test prioritization, and focusing on areas like frequently failing tests or recently changed code. While regression testing helps ensure system quality, managing large test suites over time poses challenges in minimizing tests while achieving coverage. Automating regression testing can help address these challenges.
Difference between functional testing and non functional testingpooja deshmukh
Up till now, you must have seen separate articles for Functional Testing and Non-Functional testing. In any case, in today’s article we will see the real distinction between Functional Testing and Non-Functional Testing.
Sap implementation project, rollout project, supporting project, upgrading pr...Abdulrahman Abdulrahim
This document discusses different types of SAP projects including implementation projects, rollout projects, supporting projects, and upgrading projects. It focuses on implementation projects providing additional details about what they entail and how they are executed.
SAP Performance Testing Best Practice Guide v1.0Argos
This document provides best practices for performance testing SAP R3 applications. It outlines the key phases of performance testing including planning, building test scripts, execution, and analysis. The planning phase involves identifying critical transactions, volumes, user loads, and environments. Test scripts are built to simulate user workflows and transactions. Execution involves running tests in silos for online and batch processes, as well as combined. Various SAP monitors and tools are used for analysis to evaluate system performance against service level objectives. The best practices covered aim to help ensure effective performance testing of SAP applications.
After doing testing on multiple Agile projects, I have come to realize certain aspects about the process and techniques that are common across projects. Some things I have learned along the way, some, by reflection on the mistakes / sub-optimal things that I did.
I have written and published my thoughts around the "Agile QA Process", more particularly what techniques can be used to test effectively in the Iterations.
Worksoft Certify is an automated testing tool founded in 1998 that aims to reduce testing time and costs. It uses code-free automation to simplify testing for both technical and non-technical users. The tool integrates testing into development cycles earlier and enables cross-platform testing. It has been shown to significantly reduce training time, improve design and test development speed, and make maintenance more efficient compared to traditional scripting tools.
Agile Testing: The Role Of The Agile TesterDeclan Whelan
This presentation provides an overview of the role of testers on agile teams.
In essence, the differences between testers and developers should blur so that focus is the whole team completing stories and delivering value.
Testers can add more value on agile teams by contributing earlier and moving from defect detection to defect prevention.
Performance Testing for SAP ApplicationsGlobe Testing
The document discusses SAP performance testing using HP software solutions. It provides an overview of HP Quality Center and LoadRunner for managing requirements, automating testing, and simulating load to identify bottlenecks. Integration is described between these tools and SAP Solution Manager to facilitate testing of SAP environments. Specific protocols and features for testing SAP applications are also covered.
Software Testing Process, Testing Automation and Software Testing TrendsKMS Technology
This is the slide deck that KMS Technology's experts shared useful information about latest and greatest achievements of software testing field with lecturers of HCMC University of Industry.
Sap bpc nw 10.0 consolidations ( ic elimination) implementation guide v1 pJothi Periasamy
During period close or month end close or quarterly close the accounting concepts, the revenue generated within the group by exchanging the goods and services with affiliated companies needs to be eliminated.
All Inter-Company activities and balances should be eliminated within in a group when the group reports the financial results of entities within the group. In any given group, the entities and the partner doing business with should only be present. For this unique requirement, the IC Elimination process follows the concept called “posting at first common parent”.
Jothi Periasamy
Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.
This document provides a step-by-step procedure for testing an SAP BW solution. It outlines the testing approaches, including unit, integration, functional, and regression testing. It describes testing the connectivity, data flows, objects, and custom code. Challenges include integrating BW with other systems and extensive customization. Reconciliation is performed between BW and source systems like ECC as well as within BW layers and target systems like BOBJ.
Automation testing involves automating manual testing processes using software tools to execute test scripts and compare expected and actual results. There are different types of automation frameworks including data-driven, keyword-driven, modular, and hybrid frameworks. Implementing an automation framework involves 10 steps: identifying the testing scope and needs, evaluating tools, designing the framework, developing and populating test data, and configuring schedulers.
The document describes an existing manual sales order system and a proposed automated system using ERP software. The proposed system allows: 1) automatic conversion of sales quotes to orders; 2) more accurate estimated delivery dates using order promising; 3) combined invoicing for quantity-based discounts; and 4) automated picking and shipping tied to bin locations. This streamlines the sales order process.
BPT is HP's Business Process Testing tool that allows users to create and manage test components using different techniques like keyword-driven or scripted components. It has an architecture that supports passing values between components, grouping related components, and iterating the execution of components to test business processes from different angles.
This document provides 25 tips for testing SAP implementations based on lessons learned from SAP customers and experts. Some key tips include conducting thorough resource and stakeholder planning, understanding end-to-end business processes, identifying all use cases to test, using dedicated end users for testing, and keeping the same team involved throughout development and testing. Experts advise testing integrated processes and under load conditions to catch issues, and re-testing whenever changes are made to ensure tests remain valid. The goal is to prevent any code from going to production before it is thoroughly tested across all systems and processes.
This document describes how to use the Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) in SAP to upload master data from a legacy file into the SAP system. It provides a step-by-step explanation of setting up and running an LSMW upload project to import employee address data from a tab-delimited text file into the appropriate master records. The 14 basic steps of the LSMW process are outlined, including creating the project, recording the upload steps, mapping fields, reading and converting the legacy data, and running the batch input session to complete the upload.
Jessica Manuel completed tests in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel, scoring 97% or higher on each test. She answered 29-30 questions correctly out of 30 on each test. The tests evaluated her ability to perform common tasks in each application as well as some advanced functions. Jessica displayed strong skills in using Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel at both basic and intermediate levels.
The document discusses different methods for sizing SAP systems, including initial sizing methods like hardware budget sizings, advanced sizings, and expert sizings. It also covers post go-live sizing methods such as resizing, delta sizing, and upgrade sizing. Hardware budget sizings require little customer information and make many assumptions to provide an initial hardware cost estimate. Advanced sizings use tools and standard questionnaires. Expert sizings combine tools with additional measurements of customer processes. Post go-live methods analyze productive customer data and system monitors to size changes to existing live systems.
The document provides information about online software testing trainings for SAP applications. It details training courses on topics like SAP manual testing, SAP automation testing using tools like HP QTP, LoadRunner, performance testing, and more. Contact information is provided to inquire about these training courses.
This document discusses the development of a computer-based ordering system for restaurants. It aims to create a more convenient ordering process that lessens the workload of waiters. Currently, the Woodbridge Pizza Parlor uses a manual ordering system that is slow and prone to errors. The proposed system would allow customers to select their order from a touchscreen menu at their table. Their order would then be sent to the counter for processing. This is hoped to provide an easier customer experience compared to the current manual process.
Este documento presenta información sobre pruebas de sistemas y pruebas de aceptación. Explica que las pruebas de sistemas buscan discrepancias entre el programa y los requerimientos, enfocándose en errores durante la transición al diseño. También describe objetivos, tipos y la implementación de pruebas de sistemas. Luego, explica que las pruebas de aceptación verifican que el producto cumpla los estándares y satisfaga a los usuarios según los requerimientos iniciales. Finalmente, detalla la implementación de ambos
The document provides an overview of SAP technology including an introduction to SAP products, SAP BASIS and system architecture, SAP development, SAP administration, SAP interfaces and internet capabilities, and SAP support. It describes the main SAP applications and modules, system landscape, change management process, platforms supported, and web-based technologies like portals.
The document discusses SAP's organizational structure and hierarchy. It describes key organizational units like company code, sales organization, distribution channel, division, sales area, sales office, shipping point and plant. Company code is the smallest accounting unit, while sales organization represents the selling unit. Distribution channel represents how goods reach customers. The sales area is a combination of sales organization, distribution channel and division.
SAP Transport System; Step-by-step guide from concept to practicalNasir Gondal
To transport an object, you must first create a transport request, record changes in the request, release the request, and then import the request on the target system. This involves the following steps:
1. Create a transport request by selecting "Workbench Request" or "Customizing Request" in the transport organizer.
2. Record changes by adding objects like tables or programs to the request.
3. Release the request after changes have been added.
4. Import the released request on the target system using the transport management system.
This document provides an overview of a project to develop an order processing system for SNQS International Socks Pvt. Ltd. It includes an abstract, introduction on the company profile and existing manual system, objectives of developing a new computerized system, and an outline of the system development life cycle phases to be followed, including planning, analysis, design, implementation and support. The proposed system aims to automate the order processing functions currently done manually to improve efficiency.
The document provides a 14-step guide to using LSMW to upload new customer master records from an external file into SAP. The steps include: 1) configuring the LSMW project, subproject, and object; 2-5) defining the source and target structures and their relationships; 6-7) specifying the source file; 8-11) importing, converting, and validating the data; 12-13) creating a batch input session; and 14) running the session to upload the customer records to SAP. The guide demonstrates mapping source fields to target fields, assigning conversion rules, and using LSMW to generate the programs needed to load the data.
The document describes a customer ordering system for a restaurant that aims to address problems with the current manual ordering process. It seeks to develop an online ordering and reservation system to allow customers to view menus and place orders online, which would streamline the ordering process for waiters and kitchen staff. The objectives are to develop online and mobile ordering interfaces, provide online menu information, increase sales and productivity, and analyze purchase history and pricing to increase profitability. The project will implement a system development lifecycle approach including planning, analysis, design, and implementation phases to design and build the new customer ordering system.
The document discusses the Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) in SAP, which is a tool used to transfer data from non-SAP legacy systems to an SAP R/3 system. It describes the basic principles, features, and steps of using LSMW, including maintaining source structures and fields, mapping fields, importing and converting data, and displaying the results. The main steps are creating an LSMW project, mapping source and target structures and fields, importing legacy data files, and converting the data for use in SAP.
Take a deep dive into better understanding of SAP usage, types of SAP testing like unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, security testing etc and what are the more effective ways to avoid downtimes and increase employee efficiency.
Accelerate Your Sap Testing with BquriousyadavSusheel
Enabling Business Readiness of SAP implementation with bqurious.
Due to the challenges imposed by conventional test automation approach, it is very critical to make well-considered choice for the optimum division of the available time and money to scale test automation process to higher maturity levels, ensuring high efficiency and in turn higher ROI from this investment.
Bqurious is platform agnostic Test automation & management platform accessible from any geography. Instead of weeks or months, bqurious can be setup in 5 minutes and ready to use.
Whitepaper: How to perform better test on SAP PI/PODaniel Graversen
This white paper covers how users are testing their SAP PI/PO solutions.
It shows you how why your interfaces are important to your business and SAP Landscape.
Then you will see what good tests will do to lower the expected failures and stability of your system.
You will see what the different ways of automating the testing are and how you can make your SAP PI/PO testing even faster. Then finally you will see how you can make a full automation of the test using Figaf IRT
Smart SAP Testing with Panaya Test Dynamixpanayaofficial
Discover Panaya’s smart test management solution, an AI-enhanced testing platform that combines cross-functional business process testing with smart change analysis, reducing your test cycles by 85% and accelerating digital transformation with no risks.
As Agile and DevOps are increasingly adopted to deliver innovation faster, ERP testing teams need to keep pace with an increased release cadence.
Find out how to boost business process testing, automate test documentation and tackle regression testing challenges with Panaya Test Dynamix.
Join us to understand why Panaya is ranked the #1 Test management tool for ERP.
In this webinar, you will learn:
How to orchestrate and streamline Enterprise testing in one platform
How to boost User Acceptance Testing and automate documentation
How to remove uncertainty by knowing in advance the impact of your changes on your business processes
BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINNERING MODULE 4POOJA UDAYAN
Business process reengineering (BPR) plays an important role in enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations. There are two options for organizations implementing ERP systems - reengineer business processes before implementation or implement the ERP system with minimal changes and conform processes to the new system. ERP-driven BPR makes it easier to design process changes and leads to better implementation performance compared to not involving BPR. Key aspects of BPR in ERP implementations include developing an implementation plan, addressing employee training needs, and coordinating cross-functional changes.
Discover how SAP LoadRunner by HPE lets you verify that your application architecture is built for performance and reliability. This helps ensure fewer network-related issues in your production system and boosts performance where processes hit snags.
Strategies to improve effectiveness of Test automation & ROIBugRaptors
Automated testing tools are capable of executing the test cases, reporting the outcomes and comparison of results with the previous test runs. Tests that are once carried out with these tools can be run repeatedly. But one thing to be considered is that all the test automation projects do not deliver expected ROI and success. The reason could be utilization of wrong test practices. The testers implement the test automation tools even if they are not aware of the right procedures which reduces the effectiveness of test automation.
SAP Test automation - fully automatic test of complex business processes incl...Tobias Trapp
We take the wording "automation" very seriously. Our version of test automation is indeed fully automatic. No one has to modify test data or any other input parameter in order to conduct regression tests. We support different kinds of input interfaces - Dialogues, IDOC-interface, Batch processing, files are generated and submitted all of it automatically. Even the checks in order to evaluate if the test was successful are performed automatically.
A recent feature of out automatic test system is the controlled generation of XSF and RDI output files, and the automatic evaluation of the correctness of the file content. Our setup consists of large number of isolated units which can be linked exchanging parameters. The isolated units are linked together through table entries. We have been up and running for some years
We are looking forward to displaying our setup and discuss different aspects of automatic testing with you. In case you don't believe us - we aren't surprised, but please give us the chance to convince you
Find out how companies are managing and controlling software quality across the application lifecycle using a consistent approach with SAP Quality Center. Better organize activities, automate tasks, and analyze, store, and track results. Reduce the cost and effort of fixing problems by addressing issues early
We understand that the ERP packaged application testing needs time to deliver the best, however it is possible to enhance
productivity by accelerating various testing events throughout the testing life cycle.
This document discusses best practices for end-to-end quality management. It outlines the customer's current testing process and tools, which involve manual testing with no standardized processes. The document then presents SAP's quality management maturity roadmap with increasing levels of centralized people, processes, and technology. Finally, it introduces SAP solutions for test management, automation, data management, security testing, and more to help the customer progress along the maturity roadmap towards a center of excellence.
Test case prioritization techniques schedule test cases for execution in an order that attempts to increase their effectiveness in meeting some performance goal. Various goals are possible; one involves rate of fault detection | a measure of how quickly faults are detected within the testing process. An improved rate of fault detection during testing can provide faster feedback on the system under test, and let software engineers begin correcting faults earlier than might otherwise be possible.
The Leaders Guide to Getting Started with Automated TestingJames Briers
Conventional testing is yesterday’s news, is required but needs the same overhaul that has happened in development. It needs to be a slicker operation that really identifies the risk associated with release and protects the business from serious system failure. The only way to achieve this is to remove the humans, they are prone to error, take a long time, cost a lot of money and don’t always do what they are told.
Automation needs to be adopted as a total process, not a bit part player. Historically automation has focussed on the User Interface, which can be a start, but is often woefully lacking. Implementing an Automation Eco-System, sees automation drive through to the interface or service layer, enabling far higher reuse of automated scripts, encompasses the environment and the test data within it’s strategy, providing a robust, repeatable and reusable asset.
Don’t just automate the obvious. Automation is not a black box testing technique. Rather it is mirroring the development and building an exercise schedule for the code. Take your testing to the next level and realise the real benefits of a modern Automation Eco-system.
The document discusses software test automation. It defines software test automation as activities that aim to automate tasks in the software testing process using well-defined strategies. The objectives of test automation are to free engineers from manual testing, speed up testing, reduce costs and time, and improve quality. Test automation can be done at the enterprise, product, or project level. There are four levels of test automation maturity: initial, repeatable, automatic, and optimal. Essential needs for successful automation include commitment, resources, and skilled engineers. The scope of automation includes functional and performance testing. Functional testing is well-suited for automation of regression testing. Performance testing requires automation to effectively test load, stress, and other non-functional requirements
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2. CONTENTS
Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 2
Why is Automated Testing Such a Challenge for SAP ERP? ................................................................... 2
SAP Manual Testing is Underserved .............................................................................................. 3
Deciding What to TEST: Cost vs. Risk ......................................................................................... 4
Creating Test Scenarios for Scripted Testing ............................................................................... 4
Unscripted “Exploratory” Testing ............................................................................................. 5
Capacity of Business Key Users ................................................................................................ 5
Documenting Tests Performed ................................................................................................. 5
Managing the Manual Testing Process ........................................................................................ 5
Optimizing the Manual Testing Process.......................................................................................... 6
Automated Test Scoping of SAP-Driven Changes ........................................................................... 6
Accelerated Creation of Test Scenarios ...................................................................................... 6
Accelerated Execution of Manual Testing ................................................................................... 6
Accelerated documentation of test runs..................................................................................... 7
Designed and Built for Business Users ........................................................................................ 7
Test Management ................................................................................................................ 7
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3. INTRODUCTION
SAP ERP systems must evolve at the speed of business change. It is therefore imperative for SAP ERP managers
to adapt their SAP landscapes in a timely manner to address business needs such as process changes, rollouts to
new sites, and regulatory updates. In addition, they must cater to the maintenance needs of their SAP systems
and implement SAP support packs and enhancement package upgrades on a regular basis.
SAP ERP systems are highly complex, built on hundreds of millions of lines of standard code and customizations.
This means that even a small change to the system could trigger a series of inadvertent consequences. To
prevent production failures, companies regularly perform a series of functional test cycles – which can be
either manually or automatically executed.
Industry papers discussing approaches to test automation have been available for well over a decade. Little has
been discussed, however, about the applicability of test automation to SAP ERP. This document describes the
specific challenges of SAP ERP functional testing, when test automation is inappropriate, and how to perform
manual testing faster, better, and cheaper in these cases.
WHY IS AUTOMATED TESTING SUCH A CHALLENGE FOR SAP ERP?
A survey performed by Panaya in 2012 of 100 SAP-run enterprises revealed that even the most mature testing
organizations perform only 15% to 25% of their functional regression testing using test automation tools; the
remainder is manual. There are three main reasons, inherent to SAP ERP, which explain why test automation
coverage is relatively low:
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SAP ERP functionality is heavily data driven. SAP business logic is dependent on and functions
differently with change in the input data; this translates to changes in screen flow, screen content
and screen format that must be factored into the test automation script.
For business processes that change frequently, the test automation scripts must be continually
kept up to date. A challenging and costly proposition.
Preparing the required test data for test automation is also challenging due to SAP’s complex data
structure and the various dependencies that exist in an SAP business process. Think about an
automatic test script for a purchase-to-pay process that requires five different material types for
full testing coverage. Maintaining integrity of the data required to support the end-to-end process
for the five material types is a daunting task.
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4. SAP MANUAL TESTING IS UNDERSERVED
Since it’s virtually impossible for a company to develop automation test scripts to cover every possible SAP
business scenario, manual testing is heavily relied upon to ensure that all the needed functionality is covered.
Yet manual testing is severely underserved in terms of tools that increase productivity, enforce processes, and
provide control.
Performing manual tests requires an intimate understanding of the business processes to be tested, and so, it
is typically the functional experts in IT or key business users (sometimes referred to as super users) that are
tasked with performing manual testing. They do their best to test, report defects, report progress, and
document test runs, on top of their other daily duties. This is all performed manually, with tools such as Word
and Excel.
In organizations where a dedicated test manager is allocated to the SAP team, management of the testing
cycle is performed by the test manager. In the majority of SAP shops, however, there isn’t a dedicated test
manager; the test manager’s role is performed by project managers, in the scope of their respective projects,
as an added duty.
Test management includes defining the testing strategy, identifying the tests to be performed, assigning tests
to the manual testers, chasing the testers for their individual status reports and consolidating them to a “bigpicture” testing progress and coverage status, managing defects, ensuring that testers perform the testing on
time, and more! Approximately two thirds of SAP shops use general productivity software like spreadsheets in
support of these test management activities. It is little surprise, therefore, that they lack visibility and control
over the testing cycle, and put too much time and effort into managing the testing activities.
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5. DECIDING WHAT TO TEST: COST VS. RISK
The first pain point comes early in the testing cycle: determining what, exactly, to test. Following a technical
or functional change in a massive application like SAP ERP, it’s a challenge to determine where exactly in the
system testing should be focused.
Customers have two options. One is to try to test every possible SAP transaction that may be affected to
minimize risk of production failures. That, of course, increases testing time and cost. The other alternative is
to essentially ‘guess’ where the greatest impact will be and test those areas. The second option comes with
lower costs but much more risk. In practice, most organizations seek a happy medium between the two
extremes, but the costly nature of manual testing makes many lean toward less testing.
Finding a method to test more functionality within a strict timeline is one of the biggest challenges associated
with implementing changes in the ERP application, so finding a cost effective resolution is extremely valuable.
CREATING TEST SCENARIOS FOR SCRIPTED TESTING
Test scenarios describe the steps needed to test a given function or process and the anticipated results of every
step. In theory, this should work well: each manual tester has a written script telling him or her what to do,
how to do it, and what results to expect. But in practice, this is far from the case.
Typically written in Word or Excel, test scripts contain varying levels of detail, with no standardization as to
what should and should not be included. It’s a time-consuming process, as each script can take from 30 minutes
to several hours to create. And there’s no guarantee that others will be able to reliably follow the script;
what’s clear to whoever wrote the script may not be to those charged with following it.
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6. UNSCRIPTED “EXPLORATORY” TESTING
In some cases, test scenarios don’t exist at all. Instead, organizations practice a form of ad-hoc testing, known
as exploratory testing, where manual testers are tasked to perform a test as they see fit and report results.
There are two main use cases for exploratory testing:
1. The company doesn’t have pre-defined scripts and there is no time to create them. Therefore, manual
testers run a test cycle based on their knowledge of the way the application is used. While this reduces
test preparation time, it adds risk that the business process will not be tested adequately.
2. The QA team or functional testers create test scripts and conduct tests based on these scripts. At the
User Acceptance Test phase the test manager doesn’t want the key user to repeat the exact same
scripts, because they were successfully tested already. Furthermore, the test manager needs to ensure
the application is tested exactly as the business users will use it in their daily work, so he asks the user
to simply do their day-to-day tasks on the QA system and check that everything works properly. This
method provides an additional assurance for the quality of the application.
Problems may arise when exploratory testing uncovers issues that developers must address. With no record of
what, exactly, the tester did, it’s difficult for the developers to accurately recreate problems that need fixing.
What’s more, there’s no knowledge transfer of the testing process from the business user to IT to enable IT to
create test scenarios for future use.
CAPACITY OF BUSINESS KEY USERS
Testing takes the business key users away from their pressing day jobs and limits their ability to fulfil their
other duties, such as supporting end-users, delivering training, defining processes, or liaising with IT regarding
functional needs. These key users are typically among the most experienced and highest paid in the user
organization and have very little time to spare. Since the key users are forced to fit test activities around their
normal workload, testing often has to wait.
DOCUMENTING TESTS PERFORMED
At the same time, these time-strapped key users are often required to collect evidence to prove whether or
not these tests were successful. This is especially true for organizations subject to government regulations,
such as Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules, and others. Users must collect
detailed proof of what was tested, by whom, and how. It can be a painstaking, time-consuming process for
testers to constantly take screen shots, then copy and paste them into a document to show which tests were
performed. This process can take at least 20 to 30 minutes per test, which translates into several days of nonproductive work per test cycle per key user
MANAGING THE MANUAL TESTING PROCESS
Finally, when testing is manual, the testing manager has no real-time visibility into the process. He can
distribute detailed instructions to testers but has no way of knowing if, when, and how they are conducting the
tests. As a result, he can’t unequivocally know the level of progress being made and the precise issues which
have cropped up. When testers are located at multiple sites, the challenge becomes all the greater, forcing the
manager to resort to emails, spreadsheets and phone calls to keep tabs on testers.
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7. OPTIMIZING THE MANUAL TESTING PROCESS
So it’s clear that manual testing will always be required; there’s simply no way around having experienced
users verify that the SAP system functions as it should. However, many aspects of the testing process can and
should be accelerated and managed. These include:
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Determining what to test (test scoping)
Creating detailed test scenarios
Executing manual tests
Reporting defects that can be easily reproduced
Documenting test run evidence
Tracking test run progress
In short, manual testers require better tools to make the process more efficient, accurate – and less painful.
Testing managers need visibility and control over manual testing cycles. This visibility will enable organizations
to conduct more testing in the same time window and hence, find more problems before the code goes into
production. Increasing testing efficiency also has the effect of driving down the cost of testing and potentially
speeding up project implementation, thus increasing business agility.
SAP IT teams seeking a solution to accelerate the different facets of the manual testing process should
evaluate manual testing solutions on the basis of the following attributes:
1. AUTOMATED TEST SCOPING OF SAP-DRIVEN CHANGES
Determining which functionality of the SAP ERP to test following a major change – especially when
implementing SAP-driven changes, such as support packages, enhancement packages or business functions – is
crucial to minimizing the risk and cost of change. Analyzing the production usage of your ERP transactions
combined with an impact analysis of the changes on your system can yield a risk-based approach to test
prioritization that can reduce testing efforts by as much as 70%.
2. ACCELERATED CREATION OF TEST SCENARIOS
Writing test scenarios is a painstaking process but it’s also one that’s well suited to automation. Your testing
tool should capture the business process to be tested while a functional expert or key user navigates the ERP
application. The testing tool should translate the steps into structured human-readable test scenarios,
including documentation of expected results for every step of the scenario. You’re essentially capturing the
knowledge of that key user and making it available for all others to emulate in their own testing. At the same
time, you ensure the scripts are highly accurate – but take far less time to create.
3. ACCELERATED EXECUTION OF MANUAL TESTING
Similarly, your testing solution should ease the burden on testers by offloading many manual tasks associated
with testing, such as keying the right data into the transaction fields and comparing the results to those
expected, to ensure accuracy.
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8. 4. ACCELERATED DOCUMENTATION OF TEST RUNS
Another aspect of test execution is the process of capturing and documenting test evidence for every test run.
Seek a testing solution that enables you to determine exactly which process the tester followed, what the
results were and how those results compare to what was expected. This is a crucial step in terms of providing
proof of testing for auditors, as well as tracing production failures to the gaps in your test scenarios. It also
relieves testers of the tedious process of manually documenting test results.
5. ACCELERATED REPORTING OF DEFECTS
The ability to effectively report functional failure is crucial in enabling IT address issues uncovered by testing.
Developers should get an accurate, screen-by-screen and keystroke-by-keystroke depiction of how the tester
reached a problem point, so they can recreate and fix the problem. This is exactly the kind of data that testers
struggle to capture and communicate accurately.
6. DESIGNED AND BUILT FOR BUSINESS USERS
Remember your key business users will ultimately have to use the testing tool as part of their daily routine.
They are already pressed for time; the last thing they want is to spend time learning how to use a testing tool
that they never wanted to use in the first place. So they need seamless access to the testing tool from the ERP
application. It should require minimal, if any, training to perform such testing activities as: viewing the
assigned test tasks, executing the test tasks, testing in collaboration with other testers to complete a full
business process, and reporting defects and progress. The tool should not require complex installation of clientside software, and must be intuitive and simple to use, without interfering with the non-testing tasks of the key
user.
7. TEST MANAGEMENT
Finally, your manual testing solution should provide you with ongoing visibility and governance over the end-toend testing process. You should be able to plan test projects, assign tasks to all manual testers, determine how
close the testers are to completing their assigned tasks, and receive alerts when problems arise or steps are
completed. The solution should also enable you to track a distributed multi-site testing operation.
8. SIMPLE SET-UP, MINIMAL ONGOING MAINTENANCE
You need a solution that doesn’t require cumbersome software installations, frequent patching or painful
upgrade processes on the manual testers’ client machines. It should take IT less than a day to set up the full
solution.
KEEP UP THE PACE
The pace of business change isn’t likely to slow down, so you can’t expect the SAP ERP testing burden to
diminish either. Organizations that take the initiative to optimize their manual testing processes will ease the
burden on manual testers, enabling them to spend less time testing while allowing IT to complete more
projects. This ultimately empowers the company to become more agile and competitive.
Learn how Panaya can help you optimize your SAP testing processes. Visit us at: www.panaya.com.
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