by Kevin Ko
From my experience, dealing with SAP Testing is slower than a turtle with no legs.
All development teams around the industry struggle to understand what the impact of change will have on their landscape. People are unsure what to test and they fear that something may break in production. For this reason, business users and application managers often take the “test everything” approach. Not only is this approach a huge drain on resources and time, but I have found that it often has a higher margin for error!
“Test everything” assumes that our documented tests are complete and actually do test what’s affected by change. Customer experience shows this to be a false assumption. Tests must evolve in line with system changes. The only effective way to
- (a) know what should be tested; and
- (b) how the tests should adapt is to do a full impact analysis and use the results to guide focused risk-based testing.
This is where LiveCompare comes in to save the day. LiveCompare, IntelliCorp’s bread and butter software, replaces costly, time-consuming, manual testing processes with an automated impact analysis, that will drive answers to key testing questions in a fraction of the time, reducing the cost of application maintenance.
LiveCompare also identifies unused custom code. Retiring unused code can mean your SAP systems are cheaper to operate, easier to change and easier to test. Use LiveCompare to minimize the technical debt of custom code. LiveCompare’s industry standard complexity analysis identifies customizations that are spiraling towards unmanageable complexity. Complex code is more likely to suffer production defects.
With that in mind, LiveCompare 3.1, the latest version, will be getting a public GA release at the end of the year. The general theme behind LiveCompare 3.1 is “Complex Made Simple.” The three major features of this release are: simple “apps” interface, simple generation of dashboards and simple access anytime/any device. LiveCompare apps will be familiar to anyone who uses a smartphone or tablet.
From talking with the engineers working on this incredible software, I was able to snag a few previews. LiveCompare provides an app store from which users choose the apps they need to get their job done. Apps are shown on a home screen that is personalized to each user.
The beautiful dashboards elegantly summarize the detailed analysis. Apps and dashboards are available on any device such as an HP Slate 7:
LiveCompare apps are pure HTML. This means they run in any browser on any device at any time. Here’s another example, this time from an iPad:
For more information about LiveCompare, please visit IntelliCorp (www.intellicorp.com).
Kevin is a SAP expert. He has had extensive knowledge in SAP testing and Impact Analysis for over 5 years. Previously, Kevin has worked as a consultant and project manager for a global translation company.