SAP testing solutions today are become necessary for every firm that implements SAP systems. SAP testing solution gives you the assurance that your SAP ERP application will adequately support your business needs as required from the day of go-live. This is applicable while all three processes of installing, upgrading or enhancing SAP. It provides the most effective methodologies to find out the critical businesses processes are performing at an optimum level.
SAP testing this has the benefits like eliminating risk of under- performance of resources and processes. It also reduces costs as it fixes problems before go-live and help saves costs at later stages of implementation. Also it helps improve bottom line by quickening go-live and reduce dependencies. Disruption of SAP users can also be completely eliminated. It also gives the firm the ability to make more frequent functional releases.
The best part of the SAP testing framework is its simplicity. It takes just a couple of days for the technical team to configure the technology and only a few hours of training for the team to become proficient users. The benefits are immediate. SAP Testing firstly determines scope of testing for business processes, manage the tests centrally and execute the tests. It operates on the above simple premise.
It operates through the distinct phases. When introducing new SAP solutions, the testing scope can be derived from the Business needs. When changes are made to the system one can determine the critical business processes using a change impact analysis. Test planning means setting up a test system, generate test data, develop manual or automatic test cases, create test plans and assign test packages to suitable tester. Then one initiates the execution of manual and automatic tests and check the progress and results of the test. And finally one transfers the changes to production operation. SAP solution upgrades may include SAP support packages, SAP Legal change packages, and SAP enhancement packages. Upgrade activities are followed by customizing changes, customer developments and changing interfaces.
Identification of the test scope means making a draft of the business blueprint and solution configuration are time consuming activities. Understanding the impact of change analysis is a three step process of updating the blueprint, identifying business processes affected and making recommendations of improved processes through regression testing. Test planning system setup involves development of test cases, setting up extended test plans, generation of test packages and assignment of testers, test system setup and generation of test data. Test execution covers a wide array of testing activities like manual testing, automated testing, integration validation, incident management, performance tests, status reporting and update reporting and test releases. Implementation of any changes required is brought about by use of transports to bring changes from test to production environment and installing SAP support packages and enhancement packages.
Author Bio :
Jessica Brown is an experienced author about the business solutions. She had written number of articles related to SAP testing.