Academy · Testing & Quality · 100 Foundations
Sign-Off Essentials: Entry Criteria, Exit Criteria and Quality Gates
The signature foundation course of The Sign-Off Table: what it means to sign off an SAP test phase or release, who signs, and what evidence makes a signature defensible. Connects entry and exit criteria to SAP Activate quality gates, and shows how to sign with conditions without losing control of the risks you accepted.
- 50 minutes
- 6 lessons + quiz
- Tester / Test Analyst, Test Lead / Test Manager, Program / PMO Lead, Release / Change Manager
What you’ll be able to do
- Define entry and exit criteria and give two SAP examples of each
- Explain the role of quality gates in SAP Activate phases
- List the evidence typically required to sign off a test phase (coverage, results, open defects, risks)
- Distinguish conditional sign-off from full sign-off and describe how conditions are tracked
- Identify who should sign off functional, technical and business acceptance
Sources and further reading
- Discovering SAP Activate (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Defining Quality Gates in an Enablement Project Plan (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Navigating Quality Gates in SAP Activate and SAP Cloud ALM (video) · SAP Learning
- Accessing Content (lesson, Discovering SAP Activate - Implementation Tools and Methodology) · SAP Learning
- Explaining the Test Strategy (lesson, Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition) · SAP Learning
- ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) v4.0 · ISTQB
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-1:2022 Software testing - Part 1: General concepts · IEC Webstore