Model-Based Integration Testing for SAP

By SiliconIndia | Friday, 01 July 2011, 03:58 Hrs

TransWare Software Solutions AG, provider of SAP application lifecycle software solutions announced the launch of Model-based Integration Testing for SAP, for SAP Solution Manager and HP Quality Center.
For the requirements definition of SAP ERP software, the management discipline and methodology of Business Process Management (BPM) has an important role in the Blueprint project phase of an ERP implementation. Using the BPM methodology, the business requirements are documented and analyzed. Process improvement is achieved via better support of business activities by the ERP software.

The Blueprint consists of functional, organizational and system process models developed by a Business Process Analysis (BPA) tool prior to the realization phase of customizing the ERP software. Because of the complexity of ERP software, the integration testing of ERP supported processes is a very essential task to lower business impacts of badly tested software. At the same time, testing is a resource-consuming task in critical project phases.

TransWare offers an adaptive software solution for automatically transforming Blueprint business process models from various modeling standards into test cases based on BPMN modeling standard for a methodical and tool-based integration testing using SAP Solution Manager or HP Quality Center (QC). The solution addresses the reduction of costs and risks and improved quality of the implemented ERP software.

By re-using business know-how from business process models defining probabilities of process flows, the test cases can be prioritized only re-testing an appropriate number of test cases when software changes and not the full set of test cases for a business process that is very time consuming in execution of the test cases.
Integration of test case tools like HP QC or SAP Solution Manager test-management speeds up the handling of test cases in complex ERP projects, as compared to manual analysis and description of test cases especially when the test cases change through change requests.

By examining end-to-end business scenarios with high probabilities, the automation of tests with tools like HP Loadrunner or SAP eCATT scripts save big amounts of time by re-running theses test during change requests or ERP maintenance. The overall efforts are greatly reduced for costly resources of the QA team and business key-users.