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Series: Building an SAP Testing CoE
Five guides, best read in order.
Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 1
How to build an SAP Testing Center of Excellence before your S/4HANA move
Why the ECC deadline makes this the year to stand up an SAP Testing CoE, what it owns, how mature yours is today and a 90-day plan to get it running.
Matt Angerer · 11 min read
Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 2
The SAP Testing CoE operating model: roles, RACI and how to fund it
Hub-and-spoke is the model that works for SAP. Here are the roles you need, who is accountable for what and three ways to pay for it that survive budget season.
Matt Angerer · 9 min read
Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 3
Testing an ECC to S/4HANA migration: a phase-by-phase plan
Greenfield, brownfield or selective data transition: what each approach means for testing, where test activities fall across SAP Activate and what S/4HANA changes you must test for.
Matt Angerer · 13 min read
Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 4
S/4HANA regression automation: what to automate first
A risk-based way to choose your first automated SAP tests, why end-to-end process chains beat transaction scripts, and how to keep the suite alive across Fiori, SAP GUI and releases.
Matt Angerer · 10 min read
Building an SAP Testing CoE · Part 5
Test data for S/4HANA: copies, masking and synthetic data
Most broken SAP tests are broken by data. Compare full copies, subsets, masking and synthetic data, and set up a client strategy your CoE can actually run.
Matt Angerer · 9 min read
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