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Many organizations test their SAP installations manually before deploying new OSS notes, hot packs or transports. Following the ASAP methodology, it can take 20 testers four weeks to manually run a test cycle of an end-to-end business process (or a similar testing need) that consists of 100 transactions. With four testing cycles per year, organizations can expect to spend 12,800 hours manually testing at a cost of $499,200 (based on average salaries of $60,000).

HP Quality Center and Performance Center address these challenges.

Every organization is unique, defining risk in its own characteristic ways with a high degree of variability. HP Quality Center supports fully customizable assignment of risk to key operations and systems, allowing organizations to perform testing in accordance with perceived levels of risk. HP Quality Center provides a web-based system for automated software quality testing and management across a wide range of application environments. Dashboard functionality in HP Quality Center gives organizations the visibility to validate both functionality and business processes, while standardizing and managing the entire quality process in terms of business outcomes.

Key components of HP Quality Center include:

• Test Management - Many organizations lack the appropriate levels of communication, organization, documentation and structure to enable a consistent and repeatable testing process. HP Quality Center allows organizations to deploy and test applications quickly and effectively by providing a consistent and repeatable process for test management, including gathering requirements, planning and scheduling tests, analyzing results, and managing defects and issues. HP Quality Center is a single web-based application for all essential aspects of test management, including Requirements Management, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects Management. Within HP Quality Center, organizations can assign risk levels and define requirements associated with those risk levels. HP Quality Center can then be used to provide explicit testing in accordance with those risk levels.
• Functional Testing with HP QuickTest Professional software - In heavily regulated environments such as the life sciences, an organization needs to perform OQ, testing core functionality and validating capabilities against its own intended use. For this purpose, HP QuickTest Professional provides one of the industry’s leading solutions for functional test and regression test automation. It addresses every major software application and environment. Based on the concept of a keyword-driven approach, this next generation tool allows test automation experts to have full access to the underlying test and object properties via an integrated scripting and debugging environment. In addition, HP QuickTest Professional automatically stores screen captures while executing an automated script, providing the documented evidence that is required for CSV. HP QuickTest Professional satisfies the needs of both technical and non-technical users and lets organizations deploy higher-quality applications faster, with less expense and less risk. HP QuickTest Professional is tightly integrated with HP Business Process Testing software to bring non-technical subject-matter experts into the quality process in a meaningful way, empowering the entire testing team to create sophisticated test suites with less training.
• Performance testing is essential in order to verify that essential systems can handle expected loads in line with expectations. HP Performance Center software is an enterprise-class application performance testing platform that provides a complete, on-demand optimization solution. HP Performance Center integrates load testing with diagnostics and capacity planning applications.
• HP LoadRunner software - When testing essential environments, organizations need to determine that deployed applications can stand up to expected challenges. For example, a life sciences company might wish to verify a performance requirement of a one-second update for up to 1,000 users in a given application. This requirement is very difficult—if not impossible—for most companies to test manually. HP LoadRunner software enables firms to address these requirements while potentially preventing costly performance problems in production by detecting bottlenecks beforehand. With HP LoadRunner, organizations can verify that new or upgraded applications will deliver intended business outcomes before going into live production.

USDM has validation accelerators that provide a turn-key solution to get HP’s Quality Center and Performance Center validated and ready for use in no time. Once validated, USDM has partnered with Genilogix to provide Testing Accelerators for SAP.  The Testing Accelerator for SAP provides an accelerated solution for automated functional and regression testing to SAP customers. Entirely based on the HP Quality Center and HP Business Process Testing platforms, the Testing Center for SAP provides customers with a pre-built automated testing framework, SAP-specific defect tracking workflow and best practices for requirements management. The Testing Accelerator for SAP can help:

• Dramatically reduce time and costs associated with testing SAP
• Support multilingual SAP deployments with one testing framework
• Test SAP more thoroughly and more frequently
• Reduce or eliminate (with TestAssure) the effort to maintain test scripts to keep up with changes to transactions
• Establish best-practices guidelines, complete with documentation, for current and future automation testing needs
• Enhance automated test execution, defect tracking and resolution within a single, web-based platform

If you would like to learn more about our automated testing solutions, please contact us at 888-231-0816 x188.