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| SAP Testing Lessons Learned
(Submitted by: Jose Farjardo, Company: ) |
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10. Missing flow processes, diagrams
Diagramming or modeling how a business scenario will flow within SAP provides invaluable insights to the testing team and the configuration team. Diagrams and flow processes can illustrate the lifecycle, stages, sequences, activities, states and events associated with a particular business process. Unfortunately, many projects undergoing an SAP implementation or SAP upgrade fail to diagram their business processes leaving testers or newly hired resources in a bind to comprehend how legacy processes, or new customizations derived from gap analysis will be executed within SAP. SAP testers and end users participating in the user’s acceptance test should have access to diagrams depicting how business processes flow within SAP. The absence of such diagrams puts undue burden on the testing team and places the end users in a position of disadvantage.
The SAP business analysts in conjunction with the SAP configuration team, and possibly the SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) can develop diagrams in tools such as Visio, or the ARIS modeling tool that integrates and links with SAP’s Q&adb (Question and answer database) for those SAP implementations following the ASAP methodology. Alternatively, with Rational’s tools one can develop UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams to illustrate processes with interaction diagrams (sequence and activity diagrams). |