Solution Manager Update – Time to review your SAP testing strategy?

With the upcoming EGI series on test management being run in June and July it is a good time to review your current approach to Test Management. Testing is often the largest cost associated with change. By adopting SAP’s best practices to testing there is the potential to significantly reduce time and cost. By starting now on the below approach you could have a working Proof of Concept live by the end of July.

Recommended approach:

• Review SAP’s E2E SAP Standard for Test Management – Best Practices.
• Assess Best Practice against your existing strategy to identify gaps and potential benefits.
• Confirm scope for Proof of Concept – POC.
• Build Business case and get sign-off
• Prepare existing Solution Manager to run EGI – see Prerequisites for Test Management
• Align POC scope to EGI’s and assign resources
• Complete POC via EGI’s – see schedule below
• Evaluate results

EGI Test Management Schedule:

• Test Management I: SAP Test Workbench – 15 to 18 Jun
• Test Management II: Business Process Change Analyzer – 29 to 30 Jun
• Test Management III: Test Automation Framework with HP QTP – 29 to 30 Jun
• Test Management IV: Test Automation Framework with CBTA – 27 to 30 Jul

EGI’s – North America Schedule for June 2015:

To view Online schedule for Expert Guided Implementation sessions  select all delivery methods and use the “Region” search filter to refine the search results:

• Basic Configuration of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 – 22 to 26 Jun
• Business Intelligence Monitoring & Troubleshooting – 29 Jun to 1 Jul
• Change Control Management I: CTS+– 16 to 18 Jun
• Change Control Management III: Change Request Mgmt– Booked
• Custom Code Quality and Clones– 22 to 25 Jun
• Data Volume Management (DVM) – 22 to 26 Jun
• Data Volume Management: Methodology and Infrastructure– 15 to 19 Jun
• E2E Root Cause Analysis– 30 Jun to 3 Jul
• Guided Procedures– Booked
• Performance Optimization (PERF) – 15 to 19 Jun
• SAP HANA (2 of 6) – Database Administration and Operations – 29 Jun to 3 Jul
• SAP HANA (3 of 6) – Advanced Database Monitoring – 15 to 19 Jun
• SAP HANA (4 of 6) – Make your Custom Code Ready – 29 Jun to 1 Jul
• SAP Mobile: App Development– Booked
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Roadmap –22 to 23 Jun
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1 configuration SAP BusinessObjects BI 4– 22 to 26 Jun
• System Monitoring & Reporting – 15 to 18 Jun
• Test Management I: SAP Test Workbench– 15 to 18 Jun
• Test Management II: Business Process Change Analyzer– 29 to 30 Jun
• Test Management III: Test Automation Framework with HP QTP– 29 to 30 Jun

Meet the Expert (1 hour presentation):

• SAP Enterprise Support Value Map for Data Volume Management: Global Meeting – 2 Jun

North America Schedule for July 2015:

• Basic Configuration of SAP Solution Manager 7.1 – 27 to 31 Jul
• Business Intelligence Monitoring & Troubleshooting – 20 to 22 Jul
• Custom Development Management Cockpit – 27 to 30 Jul
• Data Volume Management (DVM) – 27 to 31 Jul
• Job Scheduling Management – 20 to 24 Jul
• Performance Optimization (PERF) – 20 to 24 Jul
• SAP HANA (5 of 6) – Data Modelling – 6 to 10 Jul
• SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Roadmap – 21 to 22 Jul
• SQL Statement Tuning (SQL) – 13 to 17 Jul
• Test Management III: Test Automation Framework with HP QTP – 27 to 29 Jul
• Test Management IV: Test Automation Framework with CBTA – 27 to 30 Jul
• Transport Execution Analysis (TEA and TEAP) – 21 to 23 Jul