Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide - Hardcover

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A former SAP consultant of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), Jose Fajardo has worked as an independent SAP consultant for Fortune 100 companies utilizing automated testing strategies and in particular implementing SAP R/3. His competency in automated test tools includes products from Mercury Interactive as well as Rational Corporation.
With subject matter expertise validating and managing testing of ERP systems, Jose has participated in verification of customized implementations of SAP R/3, SAP R/3 Bolt-ons, custom applications and non-SAP applications interfacing with SAP R/3. He has been instrumental in guiding and mentoring Fortune 100 companies in the development of testing strategies and methodologies, creating testing standards, documenting Test Readiness Review checklists, documenting entrance/exit/release criteria, implementing testing best practices, creating Quality Assurance (QA) teams and QA processes, mentoring junior programmers, staffing testing efforts with resources, performing V&V activities, managing outsourcing agreements, preparing for audits of testing results, managing the execution of test scripts, and implementing automated testing strategies.

Elfriede Dustin is a Senior Consultant with Innovative Defense Technologies, and coauthor of The Art of Software Security Testing, author of Effective Software Testing, lead author of Automated Software Testing and Quality Web Systems, books which have been translated into various languages and are available worldwide. She has been responsible for implementing automated tests, or has performed as the lead consultant/manager/director guiding implementation of automated and manual software testing efforts. She resides in the Washington, D.C. area and has consulted for various government agencies.

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Destined to become your essential SAP R/3 desktop reference

Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide demystifies this powerful software to enable professionals to implement a disciplined, efficient, and proven approach for testing SAP R/3. Providing much needed industry guidance for companies that want to establish an automated testing framework, construct an RTM, and adhere to industry regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Testing SAP R/3 is a primer for testing SAP from unit testing through regression testing for production support.

Filled with templates, case studies, and criteria to establish a framework for SAP testing, this essential guide addresses activities that are prevalent yet poorly conducted at most SAP projects, including how to:

• Identify the testable requirements

• Ensure that requirements are testable, unambiguous, clearly defined, necessary, prioritized, and consistent with corporate policies or industry standards

• Retain testing documentation to support audits

• Define the scope of testing

• Create a test plan and test strategy

• Develop a strategy for acquiring automated test tools and for automating processes that includes verification at the GUI and back end layers

• Create a library of automated test cases for production regression testing that can be executed unattended

• Verify service level agreements (SLAs)

• And much, much more

If you are an SAP consultant or administrator, this useful reference will become your all-in-one guide to successfully implementing an enterprise-wide SAP system throughout your company.

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Testing SAP R/3

A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide

With companies pouring millions of dollars into SAP R/3 implementation, the question remains whether proper documentation, standards, strategy, and approach are all in place in order to successfully test the components of their SAP system. Designed for SAP managers, consultants, testers, and team leads, Testing SAP R/3 equips companies and SAP professionals to protect their multimillion dollar investment and build their system the right way and with quality.

Written by renowned SAP practitioners, this book reviews testing standards and techniques supported by the Software Engineering Institute, IEEE, and Unifying Modeling Language (UML) that have dominated the landscape for producing software-based applications, providing readers with information for conducting a major SAP testing cycle for either an SAP upgrade or initial SAP installation.

With the advent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies more than ever have the burden of demonstrating that their enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial, inventory, and supply chain systems are properly working. Providing much-needed industry guidance, this thought-provoking guide enables public companies to prove their SAP applications are running correctly and delivers powerful, straightforward, proven testing techniques and approaches for:

• Building a system with quality as opposed to merely testing for quality

• Adhering to testing practices from SAP's ASAP Roadmap Methodology, IBM's Ascendant Methodology, IEEE standards, and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI)

• Construction of a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) to verify all in-scope requirements

• Diagramming processes and requirements with Unifying Modeling Language (UML) notation

• Documentation and adherence to test plans and test strategies that are subjected to version control

• Inclusion and enforcement of quality assurance standards

A must-read for project managers, test managers, and configuration leads who want to establish a testing framework from the ground up based on industry-established principles, Testing SAP R/3 contains contributions from industry leaders in the fields of SAP testing, test tool automation, and templates to help project managers and test managers establish immediate testing best practices. Its step-by-step discussion covers all aspects of SAP testing from preparation to resolution of defects in order to achieve an efficiently managed SAP system.