Change Impact Analysis Using SAP Business Process Change

Change Impact Analysis Using SAP Business Process Change Analyzer and IBM Rational Tools Rajeev Gollapudi SAP Labs India Steven Pitschke IBM Rational

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The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation Change is Critical to Business Innovation There are 3 key drivers for change events… Business Drivers Compliance Drivers IT Drivers Modified Business Processes Governance Maintenance Risk Management Upgrades M&A and Reorganizations Compliance Regional rollouts New Products, Vendors, … Examples: SOX, SEC, FDA, Basel 2 … these change events impact the life cycle of Enterprise Solutions Effort New business process Consolid. New Implem. Support Pack Custom Dev. Hot Support Packs Pack Custom Dev. Upgrades Custom Dev. Time 4 Discrete Change Events Ongoing Change Events 4 © 2012 IBM Corporation

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The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation End-to-end Quality and Test Management with SAP Solution Manager and IBM Rational software New SAP Solution Update Business Blueprint Change Impact Analysis Solution Manager Business Blueprint n Setup of business process hierarchy n Business requirements Test Planning and Set-up Rational Quality Manager • Test Planning • Test Requirements • Business requirements • Lab Management • Defect Tracking Deploy Changes to Production linked with test cases Worksoft Certify for SAP Solution Manager Business Process Change Analyzer Test Execution Rational Requisite Pro • Automated Functional Testing • Business to IT requirements n Identification of business processes affected by code / customizing changes SAP TDMS • Load and Stress Test • Setup of lean Test system Solution Manager Service Desk • Incident Management 6 Rational Performance Tester Rational Clear. Quest • Defect and Change management 6 © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA) Motivation and Approach Motivation SAP Solution updates occur frequently SAP triggered: Support Packages, Enhancement Packages Customer triggered: Customizing changes, Custom code development Pain Point Approach Which critical business processes are affected by planned changes? SAP Solution Change Impact Analysis Update n n 7 Test Planning Identification of business processes affected by change n Risk-based Test Recommendation n Test Case review and creation of missing test cases Test Plan generation Test Execution n Regression Tests Ø Manual Tests Ø Automated Tests © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation SAP Solution Manager - Business Process Change Analyzer Preparation Order to Cash Trace to identify objects by process Trace Result: Manual execution of process step Technical Bill of Material (T-BOM) n Code: Function modules, … n UI: Dynpro 1000, … Automated Change Impact Analysis “Which critical Business Processes will be affected by planned changes? ” WS Certify, SAP TAO. . Planned Change n SAP Support Packs n SAP Eh. Ps n Custom Code n Customizing changes Risk-based Test Scope “Can I get a recommendation for regression tests? ” 8 n Tables: Customizing, Master Data Business Process Change Analyzer Order to Cash Sales Order code change Delivery Goods Issue UI change Billing Procure to Pay Create PO customizing change Business Process Change Analyzer n Identification of business processes impacted by software changes n Support decision making whether planned change shall be executed n Automatic test plan generation © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation Preparation - Business Process Documentation Lean Process Documentation BPCA requires a process hierarchy, system information and executables to be documented in a project or a solution. System information Transactions, custom development Process hierarchy n n n 9 Business scenario Business processes Business steps © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation TBOM generation Business Scenario “Order to Cash” Quotation Sales Order Delivery Billing Process Step „Sales Order“ Business Blueprint execute Customer SAP Landscape (SAP ERP, …) 1. User selects process step in SAP Solution Manager 2. User executes the process step while BPCA traces all SAP objects used 3. Generated TBOM contains Code Objects, User Interfaces and Tables used 10 © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation BPCA Technical Bill of Material (TBOM)

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation BPCA Use Case 1: Customizing Changes* SW Change Customizing Changes DEV Example: „Create Sales Order“ - input field „Purchase Order: from optional mandatory Transport Change Impact Analysis Identification of impacted business processes Test Recommendation Generation of Test Plan 12 TST PRD © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation BPCA Use Case 2: Custom Code Developments SW Change Custom Code Developments DEV Example: Extention of existing SAP screen with custom required field Transport Change Impact Analysis Identification of impacted business processes Test Recommendation Generation of Test Plan 13 TST PRD © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation BPCA Use Case 3: Planned Eh. P Business Function Activation BPCA Use Case 3: Planned activation of inactive Business Functions Example: inactive Enterprise Business Function „Advanced Order Processing and Billing“ deployed Eh. P DEV TST PRD planned Bus. Function activation 14 Change Impact Analysis Identification of impacted business processes before BF activation Test Recommendation Generation of Test Plan End-user training plan © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation BPCA Use Case 4: Test Scope Optimization for SP/ Eh. P Deployment BPCA Use Case 4: SP / Eh. P Deployment and Test Scope Optimization Example: Deployment of Eh. P 4 for SAP ERP SAP Support Package / Enhancement Package Deployment DEV Change Impact Analysis Test Recommendation 15 SP / Eh. P TST PRD Identification of impacted business processes Generation of Test Plan with risk-based test scope © 2012 IBM Corporation

The Premier Event for Software and Systems Innovation BPCA Integration with IBM Rational Quality Manager q Customer uses Rational Quality Manager for creation and Maintenance of Tests q Customer uses BPCA for change impact analysis q Customer needs to create a test plan/test suite in Rational Quality Manager based on the BPCA Analysis results q The integration makes use of test scope optimization in SAP Solution Manager 7. 1 Business Process Change Analyzer Find Test Cases based on impacted requirement Change Impact analysis Test Scope Optimization Trigger Test plan generation 16 Send Test Case Information SAP Solution Manager Connector for IBM Rational 4. 0 Automatic Test Plan Creation © 2012 IBM Corporation

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