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| SAP Testing Lessons Learned
(Submitted by: Jose Farjardo, Company: ) |
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8. Missing peer reviews
Peer reviews help refine work-products and deliverables. Peer reviews also provide independent verification and give the end customers or SMEs an opportunity to provide feedback during the early stages of the SAP implementation. Peer reviews can occur at many junctures during the implementation of SAP for tasks such as filling out CI (Customer Input) templates, drafting test cases, creating functional design specs, development of business process flow diagrams, documenting BPPs, code walk-through, etc.
Inexplicably many SAP projects do not engage in the practice of peer reviews or have any templates or forms for documenting peer review feedback. The end result is that often times the end users have complaints about the quality of test cases during the UAT (User’s Acceptance Test) and about how a particular process was customized in SAP versus how the process was previously executed in the end user’s legacy systems.
Test managers should solicit the feedback, input and even the sign-off from the SMEs for the various testing artifacts as soon as possible or as the testing artifacts are produced. It is in the best interests of the test team to identify problems with the testing artifacts as soon as possible as opposed to weeks before the SAP cut-over or SAP go-live dates. |