5 Steps to Get Precise SAP Impact-Based Testing

5 STEPS TO GET PRECISE SAP  
IMPACT-BASED TESTING 
 
FOR VISIBILITY AND CONTROL OF YOUR MISSION CRITICAL APPS

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President and
Managing
Director,
SQALogic

David holds nearly 20 years of
business technology optimization and
automated lifecycle management
experience with deep knowledge of
SAP.
Vice President,
Business
Development,
IntelliCorp

Dave holds over 20 years
of automated business process
functional testing experience,
specializing in the SAP packaged
application market.
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AGENDA
At the highest level, companies must:
1. Understand the full impact of the change(s) across the
organization
2. Pinpoint relevant test assets and identify gaps in coverage
3. Create and update appropriate test sets and data
4. Validate the test assets that changed before it goes into
production
5. Test. (Using automated testing, of course.) But test only
what matters most.
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SAP LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT TESTING CHALLENGE
Automated
Testing
Process Owners
Manual Testing
Lack of
Comprehensive
Requirements
High
Quality
High
Velocity
Low Risk
Low
Cost
Constant
Change
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TESTING DILEMMA FOR SAP USERS
• Funding for QA resources
continues to diminish each year
• Requirements, a key component
of testing are either non-existent
or severely outdated
• High incidents (defects) for each
go-live have become the accepted
norm
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In the face of these facts how do QA teams accomplish the goal of quality?
Change the paradigm – change the approach
Focus on the change and test only the things that change

THE CHALLENGE IS HUGE
EHP7 Upgrade (a typical example of a major upgrade)
948 Support Pack Transports
3,953,759 Transport objects
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What will be
impacted?
What do
we test?
Do we have
test coverage?
What are our
gaps?

THE NEED FOR SMART IMPACT ANALYSIS
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VA01 (Create Sales Order)
Depth=2
Links=19,242

TESTABLE OBJECTS
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WHY SAP CUSTOMERS USE LIVECOMPARE
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
Used Impacted Most-at-Risk
• 323
10
1222
1930
968
1302
156
Custom
Standard
15 Customers
SAP Support
Pack

SMART IMPACT ANALYSIS DASHBOARD
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HOTSPOT ALGORITHM PROFILES –  
PREDICT WHERE TO FOCUS
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SMART IMG CONFIGURATION COMPARISON
13
CD2 CQ1Live Comparison
• Select any node or sub-node of the IMG tree
• LiveCompare finds and compares all config. Tables related to
that area
• Drill down capability into any config. table to see the content
difference
16:01 Run-Time

SMART IMPACT ANALYSIS WITH HP ALM INTEGRATION
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Automatically Populates Your Test Lab with Required Tests
LiveCompare
Scans ALM Test
Repository
DELIVERABLE 1 DELIVERABLE 2

NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT TO TEST,  
AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE TO TEST… 
 
LET’S TALK ABOUT AUTOMATION

WHERE DO THE CHALLENGES BEGIN?

AUTOMATED TESTING CHALLENGES
Record and Playback Technology
Time consuming to run through every possible process flow to create
scenarios, requires programming skills to create and maintain the scripts.
Keeping Automation Test Cases Up-To-Date
Faster development cycles and business changes require on-going
maintenance and up-to-date test cases (family packs, enhancements,
customizations, patches, etc.)
Staffing The Necessary Testing Resources
It takes someone with a technical skill set to properly build and maintain test
automation with traditional tools and those resources are hard to find.
Minimal automated test coverage
Business process complexity leads to many test scenarios resulting in low test
coverage introducing significant business risk

AUTOMATED TESTING CHALLENGES CONTINUED
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Cost of Testing
Testing is becoming an increasingly larger part of IT project costs
End-To-End Business Processes Can Cross Many Platforms And
Applications
Results in limited or incomplete automated tests
Managing Reporting, Test Plans, Test History, Compliance Is
Challenging
Testing tools not easily integrated with test management
Resource Inefficiencies
People who know QA tools do not know the business process and people who
know the business process do not know the QA tools …need to staff both roles

WHAT ARE THE TOP CHALLENGES YOU FACE AS A TESTER?
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September 2015 by
EuroSTAR Community Team
Other
Maintainable test automation
Merging / combining different test approaches
Transitioning to agile
Cloud based testing
Security
Developing better products
Scalability
Prioritizing what to test
Internal test team issues–negativity, bad testers, motivation
Implementing test process improvements
Resources – time, money, people, technology
Scope creep / incomplete or changing requirements
Adapting to an evolving environment / new technologies
Allocating responsibility
Communicating to management and other teams

Manual testing is so time-consuming, technical and expensive that
only 15% - 20% gets automated during the first test cycle and the rest
of the test cycles are spent maintaining the old tests
™
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY MOST COMPANIES NEVER GET PAST 15-20% AUTOMATION?

SAP... A GREATER CHALLENGE
Change is Constant
ERP applications are in a constant state of change; (upgrades, family packs, transports,
enhancements, customizations, patches, etc.)
Metadata Based
A single change in the application or the metadata can unexpectedly affect multiple
different parts of the application.
Mission Critical - Business Process Complexity
Validating a single business process requires testing numerous data scenarios
(approvals, routing, authorizations, contracts, currency, etc.)
Highly Customized Heterogeneous Environments
End-to-end business processes typically span multiple technologies that can include
packaged, legacy and custom applications.

AN AUTOMATION SOLUTION SHOULD BE…
• Proactively understand the impact of transports on target systems
• Instantaneously understand the impact of transports to your SAP landscape and the impact/risk to key
business functions.
• Mitigate risk by pinpointing relevant test assets and identifying gaps in coverage
• Automatically determine what test assets should be executed based on risk analysis and identify early the
gaps where updates need to occur in framework to ensure proper coverage.
• Rapidly create and update appropriate test sets and data
• Eliminates the manual creation of scripts by letting non-technical users click through their application
screens and use drag & drop technologies.
• Allows users to view and apply changes to test cases without technical resources and literally update
thousands of test sets with the push of a button.
• Efficiently validate the test assets that changed before it goes into production
• Uses data-driven technology to enable users to create test flows covering all possible test scenarios
• Maximizes test coverage with the fewest possible test cases required.

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