At SQA Solution, our SAP Testing objectives are straightforward: we verify that the installed system, including SAP software, custom code, and manual procedures, meets business requirements flawlessly. This includes executing error-free operations, validating performance with users and management, and confirming seamless integration with existing systems, such as interfaces, conversions, and reports.
Successful SAP Testing at SQA Solution SQA Solution SAP Testing Phases
Typically, there are five SQA Solution SAP Test Phases. They are as follows:
- Unit Testing addresses the informal testing of individual FRICE Objects such as forms, interfaces, reports, enhancements, and conversions.
- Integration Testing is the satisfactory execution of processes. This phase of testing ensures that the SAP software functions correctly, system configuration tables are set up correctly, programs run correctly, and system outputs are reliable.
- Regression Testing verifies that functionality previously released into the Production SAP environment will not be negatively affected by new, modified, or upgraded functionality.
- Performance Testing validates that the software, hardware, and network infrastructures are in place and operating at efficient levels. This testing is required to adequately stress the SAP and related Non-SAP systems in a network environment, inclusive of remote sites/nodes. Performance testing will also include testing of those business processes that would cause stress due to high transaction or batch volumes.
- User Acceptance Testing is used to:
- Confirm the test cases needed to run using the acceptance test environment.
- Ensure the acceptance tests are suitable for management, users of the system, and computer operations.
- Execute the User Acceptance Test.
SAP and HP/Mercury Test Tools
SQA Solution is a SAP Services Alliance Partner, a Special Expertise Partner to SAP in various industries, and an HP Software Partner. As such, SQA Solution has positioned itself to offer and provide specialized SAP Testing Services COE expertise and support to the SAP community. We do this by utilizing best practices to develop, implement, and establish both manual and automated testing throughout the System Life Cycle for SAP systems.
The SQA Solution SAP Testing Services Center of Excellence (COE) can offer your company qualified SAP Testing Consultants who are proficient in all aspects of Manual and Automated SAP Testing, including the following:
SAP Quality Center (QC) and Quick Test Professional (QTP) from HP (Mercury)
QC and QTP are integrated with SAP Solution Manager to facilitate the exchange of information and data between these two tools to:
- Expedite the creation of SAP Test Plans.
- Ensure test coverage of SAP business processes within manual or automated tests is achieved. This includes downloading SAP test requirements into Quality Center directly from the enterprise blueprint, which is incorporated into SAP Solution Manager to reduce costs and errors.
- Minimize the effort to perform testing-related change impact analysis for the SAP Change Requests in Solution Manager.
- Foster the objective assessment of business risk of SAP requirements for a Risk-Based Quality Management process.
- Develop the Testing Architecture, for manual and automated Test Cases and Scripts.
- Ensure the performance of manual and automated Test Executions.
- Capture and document test results.
- Facilitate test data analysis.
- Provide accurate reporting of test status to project managers.
- Synchronize defects tracked in QC with SAP Service Desk Requests.
- Facilitate management of quality metrics with best industry practice Key Process Indicators (KPIs) via the Quality Center Dashboard.
SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization (TAO) Application for Business Process Testing
The SAP Test Acceleration Optimization (TAO) Application is used to:
- Automatically create test components.
- Upload test components to HP Quality Center.
- Create Test Cases.
- Execute automated tests against a SAP system.
- Provide a workflow process for handling sped-up testing.
- Facilitate and manage SAP and HP System Connections across a variety of SAP and HP test environments.
- Automate the control over Transaction Screen Inspections for specified SAP transactions and SAPGUI Dynpros.
- Facilitate the migration of testing components through the Quality Center.
- Automate end-to-end business process testing solutions based on the definition of Business Blue Prints contained in SAP Solution Manager.
SAP Testing Accelerators
These accelerators provide faster SAP testing development by using a component and object-based approach for automated test scripts. Automated Test Scripts are constructed from reusable components based upon expert definitions of SAP business processes. This provides easier test composition for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and reduced Test Script development and maintenance hours during SAP implementation and upgrade projects.
SAP Test Data Migration Server
This is a high-speed tool that extracts data from your live production environment. It then populates your development, quality assurance, test, and training systems with the SAP business data. By using SAP TDMS you can:
- Reduce extensive data volume for the non-production landscape.
- Use real business data to simulate the production environment.
- Reduce post-processing work by standardization of administrative data.
- Selectively refresh individual clients in targeted multi-client testing environments.
- Create slimmed-down master shells.
- Scramble sensitive data according to security needs for use in non-production environments.
SAP Performance Center from HP (Mercury)
This can be used to provide SAP Performance Testing that includes:
- Volume Tests
- Stress Tests
- Printing Tests
- Fax Tests
- Email Tests
- Network and Infrastructure Tests
- System Administration Tests
- Backup Procedure Tests
- Restore Procedure Tests
- Disaster Recovery Tests
- Performance Monitoring of the production environment
We achieved Successful SAP Testing for our customers’ SAP projects and systems by reducing SAP implementation risks, focusing manual and automated testers for increased value, building re-usable testing libraries, meeting ambitious schedules, improving the caliber of documented test cases and results, and by building suites of SAP oriented manual and automated test scripts within project timelines.
Our SAP Testing Services include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Organizing all current test assets on both SAP and Legacy sites.
- Identifying and defining data exchange points.
- Ensuring test coverage for all the interfaces.
- Identifying round-trip transactions to ensure end-to-end data coverage.
- Designing and integrating test cases.
- Identifying roundtrip transactions to ensure end-to-end data coverage.
- Generating Basic Acceptance and End-to-end test cases.
- Training appropriate personnel for future support.
- Performing Project Management for the test integration effort.
The solution we bring to you will reduce the time for testing integration, achieve quality of data exchange and migration, and improve quality of your product.