Solution Manager Demystified Part 4: Test Management

We put together a number of Executive Summaries and Work Samples in an effort to demystify Solution Manager functionality and to illustrate its benefits beyond Basis. The fourth part is on Test Management, a powerful tool especially for Life Science companies subject to FDA regulations (FDA 21 CFR Part 11). As always, feel free to read all our summaries and samples by clicking here. For additional context you may also want to read my SolMan article. I hope you will find this helpful.

Test Management in Solution Manager

Test Management is an application within Solution Manager (SolMan) which is used for SAP software testing management. Business process transaction testing scripts are generated, stored, executed and results captured for later review. ABAP code modifications which have been added or updated to the standard delivered SAP source code should be properly tested before importing into the production environment. Therefore, utilizing negative, regression and normal testing will attain a comprehensive satisfactory result for quality controls and change management.

The benefits of Test Management

1. Detect problems in source code changes by executing the business transactions requiring the modification
2. Design end-to-end testing approaches for business scenarios
3. Store testing procedures with the associated test scripts in the testing repository for reuse
4. Gain efficiency through reuse of scripts and testing data in repository
5. Reduce testing costs by employing automated testing approaches
6. Utilize multiple executions of test scripts for doing system stress testing
7. Management dashboards utilized to show testing results

Work Sample

We implemented a Test Management solution which allowed our Chemical company client to set up packages for regression testing scripts. These packages are executed for every project transport bundles in quality before the transport bundle is approved for production. End to end packages are utilized by the project teams to spot defects with the controlled set of test repository data.  HP Quality Center is linked into Test Management for execution of stored testing scripts.