Decoding Intelligent

SAP Quality Assurance with

Wipro, SAP, and Tricentis
 Abstract Exceptional business capabilities:
The SAP cloud platform empowers
With digital transformation driving new business organizations to leverage open
models and ways of working, it is crucial for APIs and use side-by-side
enterprises to think differently and move quickly extensibility to integrate external
to reap the benefits of the digital economy.
content deployed in the SAP Cloud Platform (SCP)
Cloud-based SAP transformation -- underpinned
with their SAP S/4 HANA cloud system.
by new-age SAP testing capabilities -- is key to
building a defect-free SAP production and release
environment. Rapid adaption to business
changes: Organizations are
This paper throws light on the capabilities and
increasingly migrating from highly
strengths of Wipro, SAP, and Tricentis in ensuring
customized SAP ECC landscape
successful large-scale SAP transformations. By
to a standardized and simplified
leveraging various tools and proven approaches,
organizations can not only reduce cost but also SAP S/4HANA powered by SAP automation tools,
create faster time to value. ready-to-use content, ready-to-run systems, and
quarterly upgrade releases for increased agility.
3 key challenges in SAP testing However, migrating to SAP S/4HANA requires
With a constantly evolving digital landscape and either implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud MTE
increasing technological advancement, (Multi-Tenant Edition), or STE (Single Tenant
organizations are aggressively leveraging Edition), or SAP S/4HANA on-premise version, or
cloud-based SAP transformations to improve converting in-place systems for simplification
scalability, increase uptime, boost availability, purpose. SAP DevOps & agile delivery models are
and speed up the implementation process while the way forward to handle such rapid, large-scale
ensuring cost optimization. In fact, by 2023, SAP transformations and upgrades. A successful
expects cloud revenue to exceed 15 billion euros implementation of SAP DevOps delivery model
with predictable recurring revenue accounting for requires robust SAP testing capability
80 percent of sales1. As agile and SAP DevOps underpinned by a clear testing strategy, proven
delivery models become the core of successful approaches, established processes, and
digital transformation, here are a few key trends advanced tool-sets. This will equip organizations
that are accelerating its adoption: to identify defects in early development and in the
quality assurance cycle, conduct SAP custom
code analysis, and impact-based regression
Faster time to value:
testing for optimizing the testing scope while
Organizations are increasingly
reducing effort and cost. At the same time, it will
transitioning from the waterfall
also ensure strong and effective test
method to the agile & DevOps way
management for agile project delivery, continuous
of delivery for faster time to
testing and test automation, resulting in rapid
value, enhanced quality, improved predictability, agile-based SAP development and deployment for
and better user experience. However, a unified user experience.
implementing agile & DevOps for SAP requires
specialized technical and functional automation In addition, to fit their unique SAP landscape and
tools for enhanced delivery & continuous change release management needs, organizations are
management. It is also crucial to ensure a robust increasingly leveraging CI/CD approach for their
development and testing process while SAP development projects by leveraging SAP
supporting continuous feedback from the ChaRM. However, applying agile or DevOps to
business teams on the Minimum Viability Product their SAP development and creating a CI/CD
(MVP) delivered by the scrum teams. pipeline while minimizing large investments
requires defect-free releases, shortened testing
cycle time, and reduction in the cost of quality.
The traditional approach of manual functional
testing, script-based test automation, and testing
every single test-case fails to provide the required
agility and cost-effectiveness.

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Taking a ‘shift left’ approach and
preparing in advance to jumpstart
testing and test automation
An integrated solution approach by Wipro, SAP, SAP business process recorder records existing
and Tricentis helps effectively address SAP SAP processes and converts them into detailed
testing challenges. For instance, Wipro’s multiple documentation for a reduced test design effort.
in-house SAP accelerators and tools such as At the same time, SAP test data miner reduces
Wipro’s genie enable seamless SAP S/4HANA SAP test data identification and extraction efforts
transformation by leveraging ready-to-use test while new-age business process capture tools
scenarios and test cases from a pre-built SAP such as Celonis help to capture and analyze the
S/4HANA specific repository. Similarly, Wipro’s existing SAP processes. (see Figure.1)

ADAPT
• Leverage ready-to-use test scenarios and Test
cases from our pre-built S4H repository
• Identify & Create New Test Cases for
given functionality
• Use the predefined content as a template
• Modify the template as per client
specific requirements

ADD ADOPT
Figure 1: Wipro’s SAP capabilities

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 On the other hand, SAP’s test automation tools testing solutions for a seamless SAP upgrade or
such as ATC, CBTA and START automate testing, migration, impact analysis, and script-less test
provide pre-automated test cases for reuse and automation. This approach combines the power of
SolMan 7.2 Test Suite helps with SAP testing for most-at-risk impact analysis and test automation
all SAP transformations. SAP SolMan 7.2 can be to optimize the testing cost and effort, while
easily integrated with test management tools ensuring high quality and coverage. In addition,
such as JIRA to effectively manage agile-based this also helps identify test hits and gaps wherein
SAP development work. Not only this, SAP SolMan test hits are automatically organized into
work packages can be easily mapped to JIRA execution lists and are run using Tosca
epics while work items can be mapped to JIRA distributed execution. Moreover, LiveCompare
stories. In a similar way, SAP ACTIVATE helps in identifying all automated test cases
framework, using Model Company, provides including Tosca and CBTA, which are not
ready-to-run reference solutions for subjected to any functionality change, and can be
industry-specific requirements. Organizations can run immediately without any sort of modification.
take advantage of SAP’s fully activated appliance It also helps detect automated test cases from
underpinned by pre-configured best practices, Tosca & CBTA that are subjected to a functionality
test cases, and demo scenarios. During the change and would require maintenance before
regular SAP S/4HANA upgrades, SAP helps they can be executed. At the same time, with
companies gain access to the whitelisted APIs LiveCompare, companies can identify manual test
impacted by the upgrade. This in turn helps cases related to the impacted functionalities and
identify specific integration scenarios that need all the gaps that are required to be filled for
to be regression tested. claiming 100% testing coverage. LiveCompare’s
continuous impact analysis and release
Finally, Tricentis’ new-age tools such as
assurance safeguards the integrity of the
LiveCompare combined with Tosca delivers
production release (see Figure 2).

Unit tests
D1

Moniter Self-healing
DEV Impact
analysis tests
D2

Push to QAS
D3

Figure 2: LiveCompare impact analysis

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Journey to self-healing test
automation
Tosca test automation is extremely resilient to business requirements, it can damage automated
changes. However, if an SAP application test scripts. This is known as the half-life problem
undergoes any changes due to technical or of test automation (see figure 3).

Tests built here.

100
Usable automated tests (%)

80
Try to reuse test here.
60

40

20

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Change cycle

Figure 3: Automated test scripts

In this scenario, with every successive release, resulting in defective production. When
only 50-60 % of the test automation is usable. The LiveCompare and Tosca capabilities are
other 40-50% is damaged by changes incurred as combined, we can monitor the SAP QA systems
a result of the SAP application user interface. As and identify the impacted Tosca test automation
users are unable to identify the damage until the scripts, providing testing teams with the
release date, there’s often no time to heal the test maximum time to heal the automated test cases
automation. This pushes users to leverage by re-scanning the application (See Figure.4)
expensive and error-prone manual testing

100
Usable automation tests (%)

80

60

40

20

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Release

Figure 4: Healing through automated test scripts

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 Scaling and accelerating SAP deployment. A well-organized and connected
transformation with an integrated tool ecosystem (see figure 5) coupled with a
solution approach well-planned testing strategy, strong QA
governance, and an integrated tool chain
Addressing quality assurance challenges for the approach can help in successful large-scale SAP
highly complex & fast-changing SAP applications transformations, resulting in reduced overall
is an uphill task, resulting in higher cost of cost of quality, shorter testing cycle, and faster
quality, lengthy testing cycles, and delayed time to value.

Test design Test execution Test closure & reporting

Utilize Tricentis SAP

S/4 test automation
accelerator pack &
SAP provided
standard test cases
(manual & automated)
Jump start test design Early test execution
using Wipro’s In-house automation using
accelerators -Genie, Tosca, CBTA & START
manual test case generator
& test data miner Healing of automation scripts-
Impacted test automation scripts,
reported by livecompare & fixed
proactively using Tosca
7.2

7.2
Solution
manager
Solution
manager ChaRM
SAP transport, upgrades, Impact analysis
ChaRM enhancement
Impact based regression testing scope
identified-Optimize your regressions
testing scope by 70% without
compromising coverage

Real time test mangement, test

reporting & defect tracking at user Manage your story
story level for agile delivery projects development

Figure 5: SAP, Wipro and Tricentis connected tool ecosystem

Early detection of defects and improved defect containment rate also help reduce SAP release
deployment time and enable faster SAP rollouts and upgrades for defect-free SAP production
environments.

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About the authors

Kapil Saxena
heads the SAP Testing group at Wipro Limited. He has over 25 years of IT experience with 15 years in SAP
Testing covering all SAP products. He specializes in end-to-end SAP Test consulting and Test
Automation. He can be reached at kapil.saxena1@wipro.com.

Rohit Guliani
is a Managing Consultant at Wipro Limited with 18+ years of experience in the ERP/SAP QA space for
global clients. He has a proven track record of scaling and growing a business practice, delivering on
P&L ownership goals, and client servicing metrics. He has managed global programs and projects
end-to-end, with a focus on building corporate competencies and providing strategic direction. He can
be reached at rohit.guliani@wipro.com.

Alexander Ertl
is a Product Manager at Tricentis, focused on formulating a strategy for core products and delivering
features for SAP testing. Alex is passionate about incorporating customer feedback, as he joined
Tricentis as a Consultant first. He has previous experience in consulting, implementing CI/CD for SAP
projects and Solution Manager 7.2 for a global oil and gas company based in Houston, Texas. He can be
reached at a.ertl@tricentis.com.

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