Agenda
- Challenges
- Organization Readiness
- Foundation
- Planning, Planning, Planning
- Business Process Testing Intro
- High Cost of Maintenance
- Best Practices
- Data-Driven
- Test Data Management
- Business Process Testing Demos
Common Challenges
- Typical SAP tests are usually module specific and not end-to end.
- SAP knowledge is captured in silos (module), very few resources knows the entire end-to-end process.
- Substantial amount of SAP upgrades, hot-packs and updates.
- Lack or poor Quality Assurance processes within the organization.
- Unclear, vague, poor and/or non-testable requirements.
- Poorly documented or non-existent test cases.
- Lack of Data Management
- High maintenance cost due to poor or non-existent test automation design
- Inexperienced resources without
- Automation Testing.
- Tool knowledge.
- Scripting knowledge.
- Technical knowledge.
Organization Readiness
- Is your organization ready to automate?
- Do you have mature manual testing processes?
- Do you have the test automation knowledge to avoid growing pains?
- Do you have the skills to properly plan and automate your test cases?
- Do you know the automation tool well? (Undocumented and Advance Features)
- Do you have a test data baseline process?
Foundation
- Well-organized Manual Test Processes.
- Test Cases well documented
- Valid Test Data
- Test Automation Strategy
- Test Automation Architecture and Design
- Resources with Test Automation Knowledge
- Resources with Advance Tool Knowledge
- Accessible Application Specialist (Business Knowledge)
- Test Data Management
- Dedicated team of Test Automation Specialists
Planning,Planning,Planning
Test Automation is a software development project, it is necessary to
- Prepare an Architecture solution
- Plan the best approach for the application under test
- Prepare a road map
- Identify technical challenges if any
- Train resources.
- Test Automation Strategy
- Test data management
- Test design patterns
- Standards and naming conventions
- Error handling and reporting.
- Test prioritization with Business Process Experts
- Test Automation Plan
- Development cycle process
- Resources & schedule
- Automate prioritized test suite
Business Process testing
HP – Business Process Testing
- Proven Technology
- Reduces maintenance compared to traditional automation
- Component level traceability
- High level of flexibility to deal with custom controls
- Run time parameterization
- Requires some level of recording
- No automatic change detection
- Test Automated testing tools available to test SAP environments provide several approaches;
- Traditional Record and Playback (1st Generation)
- Business Process Testing (2nd Generation)
- Business Process Testing Requires
- HP - Quality Center
- HP - QuickTest Professional
- Gives the possibility within Quality Center to
- Separate the scripting task from the test case preparation task
- Easily create test scripts using reusable test components
- Manage the test data
- Manage the test flow
- Maintain either manual or automated components
Business Process Testing-Approach
High Cost of Maintenance
- Minimize maintenance cost
- High reusability with data-driven test components
- Minimize scripting logic with efficient test component design
- Self-contained test cases for easier test management
- Function / Methods Library development for high reusability
- Reduce needed skills with task segregation
- Business Process Experts – Test Case Level
- Test Component Developers – Test Component Level
Best Practices
- Reusable Components – Encapsulated steps that can be reused
- Component Granularity – The right size of the component. Should it be a screen, form, header, tab, etc?
- Data-Driven Component – Components that can accept different input data
- Function Libraries – Visual Basic Libraries containing reusable functions and methods
- Business Component – A keyword driven component
- Scripted Component – A event driven component with the flexibility write coded and logic
- Business Flows – A collection of several components that represent a specific flow of events
- Test Data Management - A process to manage test data
- Data Baseline – A data starting point . A specific state that data has to be set at
- Naming Convention Standards – Standards for coding, parameters, messages and error handling
- Advance Error Handling – The ability to handle known and unknown errors to provide real unattended execution
- Automation Team- Dedicated team for automation
Data-Driven
An Automated Test Script should process a transaction flow based on the input test data
- Reduce maintenance by separating the test from the data
- Execute several transaction flow scenarios by feeding data to the same test case
- One Test Case satisfies multiple transaction flows
Test Data Management
A successful Test Automation needs a well organized test data management process
- An Efficient Test Data Management process benefits manual and automated testing
- Test Data needs to be included in the test automation design and architecture (Data Baselining)
- Invalid Test Data accounts for more than 70% failures in automated testing runs (GIGO effect)
- Obtaining and/or creating test data can take between 20% to 50% of the testing effort
Conclusion
- Business Process Testing
- Substantially reduces maintenance
- Provides modularity and reusability
- Captures business knowledge
- Provides data-driven testing
- Technology is been around since 2004
- Accelerates Test Creation when components are available
- Can be used by Business Analyst or Functional Analyst to compose tests
- Is embedded in a test management solution, Quality Center
Contact Information
- Ganesh.B
- Senior Testing Engineer
- Mobile:+91-8106488863
- Email:ganeshb@onlinesaptesting.com
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