SAP TAO - Solution Overview

Testing SAP

SAP Quality Center / SAP LoadrunnerTDMS

Oscar Trompé

Change is a Fundamental Principle – Testing is a necessity

There are many changes in the solution life cycle- and every change requires testing

Business inspired changesMergers and AcquisitionsContinuous ImprovementsFunctional Upgrades…

IT inspired changesTechnical UpgradesSupport PackagesNotes...

Test effort

Business inspiredchanges

IT inspiredchanges

Deliver the Business Value:The Challenge

GeneratedRequirement

ExpectedResult

BusinessNeeds

ActualResult

Project Quality

Operational Costs

IT projects are delivered over-budgetIT projects fail to meet objectives50%

Gartner

Testing today is a bottleneck for business agility

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3

4

Customer Testing Pain Points

1 Test Automation

Change Impact Analysis

Test Data Management

Compliance with Regulations

Creation of automated test cases is

time consuming and expensive to maintain

requires special skills by QA Specialists

Which critical Business Processes are affected by ChangeEvent, e.g. SAP Support Package?

Automated test cases get damaged by Change Event andneed time consuming repair by QA Specialist

Test Systems with outdated test data

Productive System copy is too expensive and labor intensive

Creation of appropriate test data for automated test cases

Change Event: Which critical Business Processes andInternal Controls are affected?

What needs to be retested and documented?

How to test affected areas in an efficient and reliable way?

SAP Quality Center

Foundation for Effective Quality Management

Requirements Quality Assets Quality Testing Defects

Ensure early visibility intoapplication changes

Reduces risk and shortenstesting cycles

Digitize a processInstall “quality gates” forchanges and patches

Leverage a single system ofrecord

Automatically generaterequired testingdocumentation and reports

SAP Quality Center Modules

Requirements– Used to show progress and coverage of testing– Links defects to specific business or technical need

Business Components– Used to create and maintain Business Components– TAO Content

Test Plan– Used to store and organize tests– Central repository for automated and manual tests

Test Lab– Used to organize groups of tests into Test Sets

Defects– Track defect progress and resolution

Dashboard– Real time KPI overview

Full Integration into the SAP Solution Manager ApplicationManagement Platform

SAP Solution Manager adapter for SAP Quality Center by HPis more than just an interface between Quality Center and SAP Solution

Manager – it is a full integration of people, processes and data

SAP Quality Center by HPextends SAP SolutionManager with its testingcapabilitiesPerfectly integrates with theother functional areas

KnowledgeManagement

TestManagement

ServiceDesk

ChangeManagement

ServiceDelivery

OPERATE

IMPLEMENT

OPTIMIZE

SAPSolutionManager

ProjectMgmt.

SolutionMonitoring

KnowledgeTransfer

TestManagement

SAP Quality Center by HP

Detailed Capabilities

The SAP Quality Center by HP integration mitigatesrisk, saves time and lowers cost

Automated Testing ofWeb InterfacesEnhanced ControlHigh UsabilityEfficient Collaboration

SAP Test Acceleration & Optimization (SAP TAO)

SAP TAOSAP Quality Suite

Customer SAP LandscapeCustomer SAP Landscape

SAP Solution Manager

Test Data Management

Procure to PayMission

Order to Cash

Best-of-BreedIntegration

Support Business Process Experts in a convenientway to create automated Test Cases for SAP Solutions

Highly automated testing of Business Processes

In-depth analysis of system change events andre-test recommendationsFinancial Closing

1. Fast, simple and highly-automated Test Case composition

2. Business Content to support comprehensive Test Cases

3. Change Impact Analysis and semi-automated Test Case adaptation

4. Fast setup of lean Test Systems and convenient planning of Test Execution Data

5. Sophisticated reporting and root-cause analysis

6. Compliance Testing supporting SOX, FDA and other regulations

SAP R/3 – ERPUpgrades

SAPMaintenance

ComplianceTesting

Scenarios

How to Create Automated Test Scripts?

Current Approach:

Scripting

Record & Replay

TAO Approach:

Drag & Drop

Business Process Level

SAP TAO: Accelerated Test Case Composition

SAP TAO ApplicationUpload test components to SAP Quality Center

Compose Test Cases

SAP TAO Agent

Customer SAP System

Dynpro 100 Dynpro 120Transaction 1plus 80more

Dynpros

Dynpro …

Transaction 2Transaction …Transaction 1xx

Run automated testagainst SAP System

Automatically create test components

Background inspection of SAP Transactions fortest component creation

Approach to create Test Cases based on Test Components

TAO Agent

SAP System

SAP Data DictionarySAP Data Dictionary

Dynpro 100 Dynpro 120

Transaction ME21 Create Purchase Order

plus 80more

Dynpros

Dynpro …

1 Automatically create Test Components

Test Components were automatically created via inspection of SAP Transactions

Automatic import into SAP Quality Center module „Business Components“


2 Compose Test Case based on Test Components

Test Components were automatically created by SAP TAO

Automatic import into SAP Quality Center module „Business Components“



Additional Test Components, e.g. SAP Logon



1.step: Create Test Plan



2.step: Compose Test Case out of SAP TAO created Test Components

drag & drop



3.step: Schedule test


3 Execute Test Case

Run test script: Initial screen of SAP Transaction ME21 „Create Purchase Order“


3 Execute Test Case

Run test script: 2.screen of SAP Transaction ME21 „Create Purchase Order“


3 Execute Test Case

Run test script: Result of SAP Transaction ME21 „Create Purchase Order“

Test result in SAP Quality Center

ME21: Document successfully posted Test result in SAP Quality Center

SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization – At a Glance

Comprehensive End to End Business Process TestingSolution that (1) accelerates testing of your businessprocesses and (2) is fully aligned with ASAP and SolutionMgr. Runs on top of SAP QC by HP suite

What?

Install the solution and build test cases using (1) BulkGenerated components or (2) Components generated ondemand. Once created, these highly reusable componentsare easily composed to form test cases. Thesecomponents are maintained and managed in the QCframework

How?

Now!Jump start today through TAO implementation services

When?

To fundamentally change the testing paradigm frommanual testing to “Testing by Composition” therebysignificantly reducing the costs and risks for all systemchange events like upgrades etc

Why?Key Benefits

Lower risk due to bettertesting coverage andassurance

Improved testing ROIfrom cycles

Increased capacity toabsorb and managechange

Tighter Integration withQC and SolutionsManager

Building a Test Factory

Step 1 - PoC (Proof of Concept)

Solution evaluationAutomated scripting processTest automation maintenance

Comparison against current testingapproach

Return on investment analysis

T0 T0 +1-3 weeks

Step1

T0 + 12-15 weeks

Step 2

Step 2 - Pilot project

Create automated regressionpack

Define/streamlineindustrialized process fortestingCreate testing strategy

Calculate metrics

Step 3 – Test FactoryIndustrialized testing & teston demand serviceAutomated script creation &test execution on demand

What Is Automated Load Testing?

• Replaces real users with thousands of “virtual” users

• Generates accurate, measurable and repeatable load on thesystem from a single point of control

• Pinpoints bottlenecks in the system

Web Server App. Server DatabaseInternet/WAN

SimulatedUsersController

Emulates production workloads on an IT system

SAP Loadrunner

SAP R/3 Transaction & Layer Breakdown

SAP Test Data MigrationServer

TDMS carves out the business data and sends a reduced copy toanother system

Client-specific MigrationBusiness data is client-specificA single TDMS run migratesone source to one target client

Fast Data TransferUses Migration Workbench asproven technical basisMigrates data table-wise via RFCconnections

ReductionOnly a few tables need to bereduced since 10 -20% of client-specific tables contain 80 – 90%of client dataAll other tables (master data,customizing data, custom-made„Z“ tables) are migrated entirely

SAP TDMS – Solution Approach

Assumption

80 - 90% of the production data is stored in 10 -20% of client-dependent tables

Data volume reduction

In order to reduce the overall volume, only fewtables need to be reduced

All other tables (master and configuration data)are migrated entirely

Customer-individual tables are transferredentirely or can be reduced via e.g. time criteria

Some tables are excluded from transfer bydefault:– E.g. change documents, user tables, etc.

(customizable)

* Estimate based on project experience

7% Config. Data *

3 % Admin- Data*

80% Transaction Data *

10% Master Data *

Client DB

Data volume transferred in migration period

Operational Rule: Time Based – Consistency

Past Day of Migration

Bus

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s pr

oces

ses

Business Process III

Process startsbefore periodbeing migratedand ends withinmigration period

Business Process I

Process startsand end in periodbeing migrated

Critical !

Time

Migration Period

Business Process II

Process begins inperiod of timebeing migratedand it endsafterwards

Technology / Architecture – “Snapshot/Cloning”

C

TDMSProd Target

Extract

P‘

write SnapshotP

Prod’

Reduce your operational and infrastructureexpenditures.

Everybody wants to save money.

Test Acceleration Solution Landscape

CRMCRMR/3R/3

Customers SAP Solutions

Development System

Test System

Production System

ERPERP ……

Client

SAP Solution ManagerSAP Quality Center

SAP TAO

ROI With TAO Solution – ROI In 2 Cycles Of Testing

Manual

QTP

SAP Test Accelerator

# of Test Cycles

Agg

rega

ted

Effo

rt (h

ours

)

TOTAL EFFORT (Hours) PER APPROACH(Assumption: 35 Business Processes)

SAP Test AcceleratorROI with 2 test cycles

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

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