Week 12 of 12
Keeping up: automation, clean core and AI
Six-monthly feature packs with a manual regression suite that takes six weeks leaves almost no quiet time in the year. After go-live, automation stops being optional, and a Testing Center of Excellence is how you keep it alive.
Clean core levels give you a ready-made risk model: A and B extensions ride in the critical end-to-end suite; C and D extensions get dedicated tests in every cycle. AI can help generate and maintain tests, as long as a person reviews what they check.
This week: make the case for automation, and build it to last
- Run the ROI calculator with your own numbers: tests per release, hours per test, releases per year, and a realistic coverage ramp.
- Automate end-to-end processes, not transactions, starting where failures are expensive and change is frequent.
- If you use AI to generate tests, review every one against a checklist: real transactions and fields, checkable outcomes, no production data.
- Measure three things per release: critical process coverage, regression cycle time and escaped defects.
Number of the week
7 years
of mainstream maintenance per S/4HANA Private Edition release, with at least one upgrade required in that window.
Source: SAP Learning, Navigating Release UpgradesUse this week
- SAP Test Automation ROI Calculator →
Year 0–3 costs and savings with a coverage ramp, payback month and hours saved.
- AI-Generated Test Review Checklist & Log →
16 acceptance checks for AI-written tests, and a log that measures how good they really are.
- Guide: building an SAP Testing CoE →
Why now, what a CoE owns, a maturity model and a 90-day plan.
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