Systems, Applications and Products or popularly known as SAP is an enterprise-grade software that helps you to manage core business processes across finance, operations, sales, etc. As the mainstream support for SAP ECC is going to end by 2027, enterprises are looking to move to SAP S/4HANA. Undoubtedly, migration to S/4HANA is unavoidable, enterprises that are looking to embrace it need to prepare for the same. When it comes to migrating to S/4HANA, many enterprises will struggle to manage the change without considering automation. Yes, without test automation, safe and risk-free migration may not be possible.
What is SAP test automation?
SAP test automation is nothing but testing your SAP instance automatically to ensure application quality and efficiency. In fact, it is a quality assurance process in which some actions are performed on the application, test results are compared to know the deviations and release maturity is analyzed on the basis of impacted areas and risks. Since SAP test automation eliminates human intervention, reduces efforts, and delivers more consistent and accurate results, it can help enterprises in optimizing application performance, reduce risks, and costs, & prevent business risks.
Some of the benefits of SAP test automation are listed below.
1. Protect business from unwanted disruption
Manual testing is not only time-consuming and inaccurate but can also lead to business disruption due to inadequate coverage. In the case of manual testing, user journeys are defined on the basis of guesswork or the experience of the tester. During updates, there might be a possibility that some most critical cases may be left behind from execution which may lead to disruptions and outages in SAP production systems. The automation framework protects your business by recommending test cases and highlighting impacted areas and risks.
2. Improves Speed & Agility
In a manual approach, testing is usually carried out as the end of development. Due to this, bugs are found very late. This eventually results in too much rework, redesign and rethinking of strategy. With the help of automation, you can integrate testing in the early stages to accelerate speed and make you more agile.
3. CI/CD and DevOps
To stay ahead in the competition, enterprises have embraced Agile & DevOps. It means that teams are rolling out updates more quickly and often. To support this, you need test automation. Start testing as soon as possible will prevent leakage of bugs in production, eventually making faster go-to-market. With automation, you can deliver innovation faster.
4. Keep SAP up-to-date
As its commitment to innovation, SAP rolls out updates on a frequent basis. However, embracing those updates with the help of manual testing is not feasible. SAP test automation helps you to embrace updates without disrupting your business processes. Automation can recommend test cases based on the highlighted risks, and let you understand how new features and functionalities are impacting your current business processes. Having everything under your nose related to change impact assessment, you can easily embrace innovation in the form of frequent updates.
Conclusion
To transform your enterprise with SAP, you need to transform your testing process. You need to bring in the right test automation framework that helps you understand the risk with every update, offers you release maturity, and delivers adequate coverage.
