Sap test automation accelerator
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The document discusses Infosys' Test Automation Accelerator (ITAA) software for automating functional testing of SAP environments. ITAA aims to streamline the test automation process and improve efficacy by enabling non-technical business users to create automated test scripts. It accelerates the creation of an automated test bed, allows testing to begin earlier, and reduces maintenance efforts and overall automation costs through features like pre-built test components and centralized change management. The document provides details on how ITAA works and the benefits it provides, such as savings of 30-40% in maintenance and automation efforts. It also presents examples of success stories in reducing manual testing effort by up to 70%.
Sap test automation accelerator
- 1. Automation Accelerator for SAP Testing The need to go live, in the shortest possible time frame and while conserving budgets, makes test automaton a critical art of the SAP testing life cycle. Here are some vital questions that will help you analyze the efficiency of your test automation processes: • Is the cost of your SAP upgrade increasing due to high cost of testing? • Is your testing cycle disrupted by your demanding release schedules for SAP? • Are your business users unable to participate actively in test automation due to the technical nature of the process? • Are the operational costs of automation and the maintenance of automated test scripts a cause of persistent concern? A ‘yes’ to one or more of the above questions points toward the need for streamlining your test automation process and improving its efficacy. Infosys’ Test Automation Accelerator (ITAA) helps you achieve this, thus making SAP testing simple and cost effective. ITAA is an add-on software that improves the performance of your automated functional testing tools. It empowers nontechnical business users to create automated test processes by accelerating the creation and maintenance of an automation test bed in a SAP environment. ITAA Enables • Beginning the testing cycle while the application is being developed, reducing the time required for post development testing • Business users to carry out test scripting, ensuring that test processes mirror business processes • Leveraging a pre-built framework, reducing initial investment and advancing the realization of returns • Maintaining automated test scripts through centralized change management and better change tractability • Non-technical experts to work with a user friendly graphical user interface • Seamless integration with test management tools, enabling effective result reporting • A well-defined framework, providing data parameterization and a standard test data management mechanism Infosys ITAA for SAP - How it Works? • The object information (Object repository) from SAP is uploaded to ITAA • ITAA automatically generates the automated test scripts • The automated test script can be directly stored on to the test management tool or used in the automation tool • Automation scripts run on different SAP clients. There is no dependency on ITAA during execution • Pre-built and expandable Keyword library that includes an error handler, recovery scenarios, and various user defined checkpoint functions • 500 pre-build SAP test components in P2P, OTC, WM, and FI process areas • The solution can run on any industry standard automation tools
- 2. Key Benefits Benefits Saves time by starting the cycle early. Business testers and automation experts can work parallel to each other to expedite the automation process 30-40% reduction in maintenance efforts of test suite 30-40% reduction in overall automation effort Less code to develop and maintain Generates documentation of automation scripts that comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Success Stories Infosys has partnered with leading cosmetics manufacturers to test Infosys successfully implemented ITAA for a pharmaceutical its SAP rollout, across different process areas, with ITAA. This will company, cutting the test effort by 30% and enabling them to meet enable manufacturers to reduce manual testing effort by as much as the application release deadline. 70%. Allied Services Technology Consulting Independent Validation Process Consulting SOA Services We work with you to develop Gives your applications Strong quality processes are Our SOA Services will help implementable architecture the third degree treatment the key to delivering reliable, you achieve better Business- solutions that help you and tests their robustness usable software within scope IT alignment with clearly leverage technology to enable and ability to survive your & budget commitments. defined accountability. They business strategy. Our solution business growth. A “must Infosys can help you put in help you build on existing IT helps you achieve a balance have” service if you are serious place robust processes to investments to achieve process between IT Effectiveness and about long term leverage of increase productivity, shrink standardization & improve business innovation. your application assets. cycle time and enhance process efficiency. customer satisfaction.