Autonomous Testing for SAP

Editor's Notes

• #3: Studies show that overall automation means 60% of organizations are at less than 30% (This is interesting as many other market surveys have typically found a much higher rate, but we think that this is because this study focused on business process rather than test process automation. ) Regression testing aims to make sure that a change or addition hasn't broken any existing functionality. How is it done? By building a knowledge repository on how things are done today in production. This is the reference for the regression testing. Would you consider that maintaining an accurate knowledge repository is a challenge? Do you currently have one? Then based on this knowledge, tests are either tested automatically or manually. The market benchmark talks about a split of 40% for automatic and 60% for manual in average. Where do you fit compared to this benchmark?
• #4: When the go live approaches and you need to give a go for the release to production, how much are you sure that the tests that were performed reflect properly what’s happening in real life?
• #5: Current methodologies requires spending huge amount of effort and time to study the constant changes of business processes and to reflect it in the regression test suite. This problem exist not only for manual regression testing, but also for automatic testing. Automation is an ongoing investment in building new scripts but especially in maintaining them. Test Automation has also its limits and doesn’t have an ROI for the whole regression suite. As seen, a big chunk of the testing remains manual and there is no real alternative to automation. As any other type of testing, management and visibility over the testing progress is also a challenge, especially when working globally with distributed teams
• #10: Omega is the Panaya patented technology behind the auto discovery of unit test scripts based on user activities. Omega Continually captures transactions from production, these are the actual user activities in your SAP ERP system These activities are processed using Panaya advanced technology and automatically converted to detailed and human readable Unit test scripts These test scripts are always up-to-date, no need to maintain the Unit test suite
• #12: Feature selection is a machine learning process to identify the relevant characteristics which will be used to distinguish objects (scenarios here) Currently fixed set of features based on Panaya expertise (supervised). This can be improved along the time based on the experience that will be gathered.
• #13: The regression flow consists in: Capturing business knowledge, which is traditionally done by interviewing business users. With Panaya you can search for the recorded test evidence from previous project, no matter which technology was tested. For SAP ERP in particular, Panaya provides the ability to automatically convert business user activities in production into unit test scripts, using big data and artificial intelligence technologies. Preparing test scripts Once the capture process is being done, you need to convert them into reusable scripts, often end-to-end ones. Tests scripts are traditionally written manually or coded for automation. Panaya introduces new options such as the ability to record screen activities to create a new script or to convert recorded test evidences into scripts. No matter how the script is, the quality of its execution depends on your ability to prepare relevant test data. The scripts need to be continually maintained to reflect what’s currently happening in production. The cost of maintaining automatic testing scripts is very high compared to manual ones. Panaya Omega enables you to continuously know how processes are run in Production. Planning Using Panaya platform, you’ll be able to build the testing scope, assign tests to the relevant testers with the relevant due dates. Executing the test manually by going through the scripts Automatically by scheduling the test execution in the background With Panaya, you have another alternative on SAP ERP, which enables you to rely on non technical resources to go through the scripts in an accelerated manner and therefore accelerate the execution of manual tests where it is not cost effective to automate. Automatic Discovery of unit test scripts based on user activities** Accelerated test execution for tests which are not cost effective to automate** Test Management platform to effectively maintain and execute your regression tests Accelerated test preparation by quickly generating detailed test scripts Effortless documentation of manual test executions
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• #16: Omega is the Panaya patented technology behind the auto discovery of unit test scripts based on user activities. Omega Continually captures transactions from production, these are the actual user activities in your SAP ERP system These activities are processed using Panaya advanced technology and automatically converted to detailed and human readable Unit test scripts These test scripts are always up-to-date, no need to maintain the Unit test suite
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