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1. by Ken Murphy, Senior Writer
of Business Process Tests
80% Automation
Completes Journey to
Kraft Foods Group is one of the largest consumer
packaged food and beverage companies in North
America — where at least one of its brands can
be found in nearly every household. Complex
supply and distribution networks support the
production and distribution of two billion-dollar
brands — Kraft and Oscar Mayer — and several
million-dollar brands, and disruption to supply
chain or distribution capabilities could adversely
affect this market penetration. Because Kraft
Foods increasingly relies on its IT infrastructure
to manage business operations and comply with
various regulatory, legal, and tax requirements,
it can’t afford shutdowns or other failures during
software upgrades or enhancements.
The importance of keeping defects out of
production took on added importance for Kraft
about five years ago when it began a major SAP
implementation for its North America operations.
Its manual regression testing processes struggled
Kraft Foods
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2. to keep up with the volume of regression scripts needed to
be executed for all the new releases going into production.
By implementing some test management software by
HP, Kraft was able to automate 50% of its regression test
script inventory, focusing primarily on regression testing
for its SAP applications by partnering with Infosys Lim-
ited. Because of the success with these tools, Kraft decided
to implement a second application to increase its auto-
mated inventory with a goal of reducing the number of
defects that were making their way into production. Addi-
tionally, Kraft decided to automate the highly integrated
non-SAP applications. This decision came about in Sep-
tember 2012 — shortly before Kraft split off its confections
and snack business.
It’s rare for a company with a history dating back a cen-
tury to adopt a startup mentality, but with the business
split, the rebranded Kraft started thinking like a smaller
company — one that was keenly focused on avoiding
any major production errors. Now, with a single instance
of SAP ERP, a production error in a new release could
potentially affect the entire business. Also, the business
consolidation meant the company could operate with a
leaner IT department. And by significantly automating
the regression test inventory, this leaner IT organization
could manage more frequent regression cycles to support
the system and configuration changes.
Lori Etelamaki, Kraft’s Associate Director of Quality and
Testing, had two goals for the organization’s new automa-
tion tool: automate 80% of its regression inventory, and do
so without disrupting the business. She says, “Minimizing
the impact to the project teams working on implementing
the applications is important, because if they are busy test-
ing, then they are not focused on innovation, financials, or
providing business value.”
The overriding goal, of course, is minimizing disruption
to the customer — keeping Kraft brands in refrigerators
and pantries. “There are certain things you can’t afford to
mess up,” Etelamaki says. “Quality always has to be there
to make sure we’re not stopping production lines or trucks
aren’t waiting for inventory.”
Worksoft Fills the Gap
Knowing that the volume of regression test scripts would
increase, one requirement for the new automation tool
was that it be able to maintain and manage a heavy
volume of processes. Another was ease of use. Partly
because of these factors, Kraft decided to implement
Worksoft Certify, the flagship product from SAP part-
ner Worksoft that promises end-to-end business process
validation across the entire SAP ecosystem.
“We previously had some challenges around testing
SAP NetWeaver Portal and SAP GUI applications, as well
as some non-SAP applications like web apps connecting to
our servers,” Etelamaki says. “We believed that Worksoft
would work well on an end-to-end scale.”
Goal: Kraft wanted to
increase the automated
test coverage of its core
business processes from
50% to 80% to improve
its defect detection rate
and reduce test cycle
time and effort
Strategy: Added
Worksoft Certify for
end-to-end automated
testing across its SAP
ecosystem
Outcome: Decreased
the number of defects
in production, achieved
the goal of 80% auto-
mation, and significantly
reduced the time and
effort spent on manual
script development, test-
ing, and maintenance
At a Glance
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3. Because testers don’t need programming skills to be trained to use
Worksoft Certify, adding the new application was easy, especially
because Kraft already had an automated testing framework in place
that testers were familiar with. To further help ease the transition, in
conjunction with automating its initial regression inventory, Kraft
established a testing center of excellence (TCoE), using Infosys
Limited as its partner for testing services. This TCoE provided
test planning, scripting, execution, and automation across various
test cycles.
With the addition of the Worksoft application, this team of tes-
ters was then responsible for building up the automation portfolio
for all critical SAP and SAP-integrated applications. In the manual
regression testing environment, regression testing was the domain of
the particular project or business team — a labor-intensive approach.
The TCoE allowed the flexibility of executing the automated regres-
sion inventory for major releases, minor releases, and monthly break/
fix releases, significantly increasing the test coverage and reducing
defects introduced into production.
“One benefit of a TCoE was a continuity of resources,” explains
Etelamaki. “We didn’t want to have situations where a project team
would implement an application, and then when a new update
would come along, those team members were no longer available. A
centralized team for executing the automation process knowing the
scenarios and exactly what needs to be done is the glue between all
the multiple releases.”
Increasing Automation Inventory
In building its automation inventory, Etelamaki’s project team chan-
neled its focus on identifying and executing automated regression
testing for core end-to-end business processes. The team looked at
integration scripts in use for prior releases as a starting point, and
built its inventory based on whether the scripts were for core pro-
cesses. Every time an application went into production, the key
question was whether new functionality was added and, if so, wheth-
er that functionality touches a core process or introduces a new busi-
ness scenario. The new Worksoft application needed to extend out
to Kraft’s roughly 80 non-SAP integrated applications to reach the
stated goal of automating 80% of regression testing.
Company Snapshot
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.
Headquarters: Northfield, Illinois
Industry: Consumer manufactured goods
Revenue: $18.3 billion (2012)
Net income: $1.6 billion (2012)
Employees: 23,000
Company details:
• Kraft Foods was established in 1909
as J.L. Kraft & Bros. Co., by Co-Founder
and President James Lewis Kraft
(1874-1953).
• Kraft was granted a patent for what
became known as process cheese in
1916; his pasteurization and homogeni-
zation processes allowed cheese to be
packaged and sold in convenient sizes
for wider availability. In 1915, Kraft
sold $5,000 worth of process cheese.
The next year sales skyrocketed to
$150,000.
• Household penetration is 98% in the US
and 99% in Canada.
• Kraft has 27 brands with more than
$100 million in annual sales.
• In October 2012, Kraft Foods, Inc. split
into two separate businesses, with Kraft
Foods Group as a grocery business with
iconic brands such as Velveeta, Jell-O,
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Maxwell
House, and Kool-Aid. Mondelez Inter-
national Inc. was created as a dessert
and snacks-based business. Its brands
include Nabisco, Cadbury, and Halls.
SAP solutions:
• SAP ERP
• SAP NetWeaver BW
• SAP NetWeaver Portal
• SAP NetWeaver PI
• SAP NetWeaver MDM
• SAP Solution Manager
• SAP CRM
• SAP SCM
• SAP solutions for GRC
“Once you automate and execute a
few of their business processes and
everyone sees how simple it is, you
get that buy-in and they come to
your door wanting more.”
— Lori Etelamaki, Associate Director of Quality
and Testing, Kraft Foods
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4. Another decision the team made was to target automation only
for stabilized applications, to help build a run and re-use inven-
tory, and then proactively update those test cases to reflect up-
coming release changes. This is where the new application’s ease
of use came into play. “I could have my Infosys functional testers
learn Worksoft, update the test, and put it back into the queue,”
Etelamaki says. “That was key for efficiency. And because of that
simplicity, those testers would often approach me with new ideas
for how to use the automation application in other areas.”
Changing the Business Mindset
The approach for automated testing was to start with a key func-
tional area, and automate enough scenarios to significantly reduce
the impact on the business. Kraft started with a very critical and
highly integrated order-to-cash process. “The business teams would
say that it would be quicker for them to just do it themselves,”
says Etelamaki. “It’s difficult to explain that it would end up saving
them several days of work every time there’s a new release, and we
need a little time up front to ensure the process is appropriately
documented for testing — so we took a “show-me” approach. We
demonstrated the execution of automated scripts took a fraction
of the time that the manual execution took. Also, the business was
only required to validate the exceptions.”
After automation occurs, however, the inventory queue grows
quickly. “Once you automate and execute a few of their business
processes and they see how simple it is, you get that buy-in and
everyone comes to your door wanting more,” says Etelamaki. This
user acceptance helped make increasing the automation inven-
tory from 50% to 80% a relatively straightforward endeavor, espe-
cially because Etelamaki’s team was able to show rather quickly
that the upfront effort, which was initially met with resistance by
business teams, was actually paying dividends in higher quality
and shortened timelines.
This success was reflected in break fixes and monthly produc-
tion cycles. “Normally, teams don’t have a large window for test-
ing, and the testing time for monthly cycles is very short,” says
Etelamaki. “Now, our teams are a lot more confident knowing
that it will only take us three days to run these tests before go-
live. And because the testing does find defects, we’ve been able to
prove that it’s worth our time and effort.”
Mobile, the Next Wave
Because Kraft reached its goal of automating more than 80% of
its core business process tests with little disruption to business
teams, the organization can now plan its release cycles differently
because testing cycle times have been reduced. “All the manual,
labor-intensive work that used to take weeks to perform is now
done in days and, in some cases, even hours,” Etelamaki says. “A
previous four-week regression cycle now can be done in half the
time, with 80% completed in the first three days. So not only do
we have time to identify and fix errors, but since we have sev-
eral releases a year, we have a lot more available time to devote
instead to blueprinting, development, or other phases. We can
actually have more releases and innovate faster.”
With the success of Worksoft Certify, Kraft started implement-
ing Worksoft Certify for Mobile to its testing suite in November.
“That is the next big frontier,” says Etelamaki.
Worksoft Helps Kraft Cut Costs and
Increase Quality with Automated
Business Process Validation
Worksoft provides a top-ranked industry
platform for automated business process
validation. Companies use Worksoft software
to shorten project timelines, reduce costs,
innovate faster, and improve business pro-
cess quality for enterprise systems, including
SAP solutions and all cloud, mobile, and portal
technologies. In a nutshell, Worksoft ensures
that business processes continue to work
even when mission-critical enterprise systems
change. With this technology, companies can
increase quality and lower costs — at the
same time.
After a major SAP implementation, Kraft
Foods Group found that manual testing pro-
cesses could not keep pace with the increased
number of regression test cycles of new re-
leases. As a result, Kraft implemented Work-
soft Certify for highly automated testing of its
business-critical processes. With an increased
automation portfolio, Kraft was able to dramati-
cally increase its coverage and automate over
80% of its regression testing for both SAP and
non-SAP business systems.
“By turning to Worksoft for end-to-end busi-
ness process validation, Kraft avoids the poten-
tial business disruption of software defects in
production. In other words, this lowers technol-
ogy risk and the impact of recurring changes in
the company’s application environment,” said
Shoeb Javed, CTO for Worksoft. “At the same
time, high automation helps Kraft achieve cost
savings, improve efficiency, and maximize staff
productivity.”
Worksoft Certify is easy to use and provides
the industry’s highest levels of automation —
often exceeding 80% coverage of a company’s
critical business processes. Leading global
brands and more than 200 SAP companies
worldwide have embraced Worksoft’s auto-
mated business process validation software to
ensure quality execution and minimize risk. For
more information, visit www.worksoft.com.
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