Maintaining SAP Automation Across Releases

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Automation maintenance checklist

• For every release: read release information, What's New entries and simplification items; tag affected tests.
• Run the full suite on the first upgraded system; fix before quality regression, never after production.
• Reserve maintenance capacity per release and tune it from effort data.
• Track flip rate and rerun pass rate per test; quarantine above threshold with a time limit.
• Replace fixed waits with polling or readiness signals, always with a timeout.
• Triage by signature; time-box each cluster; give every failure a class, owner and status.
• Version scripts, locators, data code, config and expected results together; record test and solution versions on results.
• Follow the transport: merge test changes when the feature reaches the system.
• Quarterly pruning: rank by value and cost, agree with process owners, archive and record gaps; protect control tests.