SAP TCoE Tooling and Test Automation Strategy: Platform Selection, Automation Portfolio and ROI

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• SAP gives: Cloud ALM (system of record, no engine), the Public Edition tool (free, standard processes), legacy SolMan, CBTA and eCATT. Private Edition has no SAP-built process automation tool.
• Cloud ALM integration means implementing the Test Automation API; see it work in the PoC.
• Fix requirements, weights and knock-outs before demos; same five scenarios, data, timebox and scorers for all.
• Include a change event and ten unchanged runs: measure repair hours and false failures.
• Home-grown costs compound: framework entropy, key-person risk, multiple stacks, evidence features, readability.
• ACCELQ worked example: readable Actions, one asset model for SAP GUI, web and APIs, Local Agent, self-healing with review; prove Fiori and Cloud ALM in the PoC; label marketing as "ACCELQ says".
• Portfolio: score risk 30, frequency 25, stability 20, data 15, automatability 10; push checks to the lowest layer.
• TCO: state every assumption; count only manual runs that would happen; show break-even subscription and the losing case.
• Definition of done: naming, data recipe, environment-independent, 5 green runs, key-user review, owner.
• Health: false failures under 5%, every self-heal reviewed, quarantine as not executed, maintenance hours vs model; keep an exit plan.