ERP Testing
Over the past few years, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions have consistently remained among the top IT spending priorities in large corporations.
On the other hand, we also see a relentless rising tide of dissatisfaction among end users with their enterprise applications.
ERP has always had and will continue to have a broad set of stakeholders. An ERP’s endeavor is to handle the mission critical business processes of enterprises, spreading the value across the organization with tighter and logical integration among various departments. Hence, CSC’s ERP testing approach includes structure, rigor, and appropriate stakeholder involvement.
CSC understands that testing ERP applications can be complicated, because even a simple change can have upstream or downstream effects on system configuration, business process steps, interfaces, security or supporting infrastructures. Changes must be tested in a controlled environment that imitates production operations to ensure that critical business operations will not be interrupted when a change is being implemented, while ensuring that the product-related changes do not negatively affect how the application supports the business.
Challenges at a glance:
- Complex Technology Landscape: Requiring complex implementations with specific programming and configurations, and industry specific business processes.
- Broader Scale: Multi-geography projects requiring deeper and wider levels of enterprise-scale software test management experience.
- Integration Challenges: Requiring integration with newer as well as legacy and third-party applications.
- Product Upgrades and Interim Releases: Application vendors going in for interim market releases and product upgrades that require on-going testing, modeling of relevant business scenarios as an integrated suite of automated test cases.
- Performance Issues: Lack of a comprehensive performance test plan, leading to performance issues at various levels (application, database, load characterization, user roles, critical paths, ramp rates, tools, protocols, injection points, load origination).
- Regulatory Compliance: Both country-specific and country-neutral compliance and regulatory requirements have become high priority across various industries.
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