Introduction

Many businesses implement SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) to maintain their business processes and change according to new market challenges. SAP R/3 is an integrated ERP software that enables businesses to manage their business efficiently. Businesses can decrease the cost to run their operations by using SAP R/3 ERP packages.

SAP R/3 also enables customers to interact with various databases to run various applications with the help of a user-friendly GUI. The SAP R/3 system is divided into various modules to cover the functionality of various business operations in an organization.

SAP Testing

The most common SAP R/3 modules are −

• SAP Material Management.
• SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling.
• SAP Sales and Distribution.
• SAP Human Resource.
• SAP Supply Chain Management.
• SAP Plant Management.

SAP Testing is about testing the functionality of these modules and to assure that they work as per the configuration.

An SAP system supports various changes like patch management and fixes, new module implementations, and many other configuration changes. All these changes raise a requirement for Regression testing is to be performed in SAP environments. SAP testing automation tools like SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization tools can be used for this purpose.

SAP TAO is an automation tool to create test cases for end-to-end situations for SAP applications. Apart from this, there are many different Automation testing tools for SAP testing like HP QTP, and ECATT, etc. that can be used.

Importance of Testing

Here is a listing of key motives why SAP testing is performed and why it is an important function in the growth of the industry −

 Compliance Requirement − SAP Testing assures that the SAP implementation is meeting the new compliance requirements in a specific organization and all the modules are working as per the required configuration.

 System Validation − SAP Testing includes complete end-to-end testing and validation of all SAP modules in the SAP ERP environment.

Cost and Predictability − SAP Testing involves reducing the SAP development costs and increase predictability.

Quality and Revenue − SAP Testing is output-based testing and not like conventional testing methods which are input-based. It assures the quality of the SAP system and also concentrates on the revenue and cost of the organization.

New Implementation and Configuration Changes − There are many types of changes implemented in an SAP system, like patches and fixes, new implementation, configurational changes. Therefore, SAP testing assures that all the modules are performing as per requirement in this dynamic system environment.

Integration − SAP testing is performed to test different reports, data flows, and workflows, GUI forms, etc. It is used to check system integration between different modules. For example, if an order posting is done that needs action in Sales and Distribution, SAP MM and  SAP FICO, then SAP testing checks the integration between these systems.

Performance − It is also used to ensure if the system will be able to meet the Service Level agreements, time is taken by the system to perform specific actions, the performance of the system, etc.

SAP testing process is usually divided into three phases −

• Test Planning
• Test System setup
• Test Execution and evaluation

Test Planning

Test planning involves the steps that are included in the beginning phase of testing.

Gathering the requirement. What requires to be tested? Functional requirements to be collected for system and application testing.

Test-case development for manual and automation testing. In automation testing, many tools can be used for creating test-cases.

Reviewing the test-cases.

Test System Setup

The test system setup involves setting up the test environment to run the test-cases. Here, the tester requires to define key metrics for reporting.

Test Execution and Evaluation

Test execution and the evaluation includes executing the test-cases and noting down the output. It includes the following activities −

• Defect handling and reporting.
• Documentation of all defects and compare the results with key metrics.
• Assessment of Test plans as per result

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