What’s the most common strategy for testing an SAP application change — be it a custom update, a service pack or an emergency fix? Don’t test the change at all! OK, let me back up – this provocative statement is not entirely accurate. Most organizations do some testing of their SAP applications. When an update needs to be deployed into production, they make their key users test it.
Have you developed a vision for modernizing your testing? Now it’s time to make that vision a reality. When you set out to transform your testing practice, don’t just aim to improve a few processes—instead, strive to make sweeping changes in the culture and activities of your testing organization. By definition, a transformation should entail major changes. It’s your chance to implement an entirely new vision for testing.
Organizations relying on testing tools from Micro Focus (and before that, HPE) to ensure the quality of their digital initiatives recently received sobering—if not surprising—news: Micro Focus announced that it was being acquired by OpenText, giving the company’s aging testing products their second “new home” in five years (Micro Focus acquired ALM/Quality Center, UFT, and LoadRunner as part of their 2017 purchase of HPE’s software business).
