Basis Technologies: Latest innovation of tests in SAP environments with Testimony and Robotic Test Automation

LONDON & DALLAS-Basis Technologies, an innovation leader in DevOps for SAP®, has added Testimony to its DevOps toolset, a solution that enables a whole new approach to functional regression testing of SAP® environments.

Testimony introduces a transformative new testing paradigm, Robotic Test Automation (RTA). RTA reduces the risk of change, giving organizations the confidence they need to operate at a highly competitive pace. It protects critical business processes from the unintended consequences of change by significantly reducing the time spent on regression testing while increasing test coverage and reducing costs.

A transformative new approach to test automation

Using the RTA, Testimony provides a fully automated solution that learns how systems work. It allows tests to be configured, executed and updated without user input by automatically creating a test suite that validates new versions for use in the field. End-user interviews, technical scripts and user recordings are no longer required, so system-wide SAP® regression testing can be initiated in a matter of days.

RTA eliminates the challenges and costs of traditional test automation and offers a highly efficient alternative to manual methods. This new approach provides valuable relief to functional experts who can focus on value-adding core activities and eliminates the difficult test data issues inherent in traditional approaches.

Testimony creates the conditions to make agile development and DevOps for SAP® more effective, supporting continuous testing and faster, more frequent deployment of changes. Transformation projects such as a platform shift to the cloud are significantly accelerated, while important updates and upgrades for SAP® become faster and more secure.

Far deeper coverage

Coverage beyond the user interface (UI) is critical for effective testing, but automation tools typically focus only on the outside-in interactions at the UI level. Testimony also monitors SAP® software at code and system level, executing many different flow paths and technical interactions and automatically integrating them into the overall test plan to ensure far greater coverage.

In addition, Testimony uses service virtualization to automatically isolate SAP® systems from others, creating the conditions for fully testing business processes that involve external interactions without replicating external systems in the test environment.

Responding to user needs

66%¹ of organizations using SAP® software expect regression testing to increase in the short term and need a cost-effective way to solve this problem. Testimony offers a compelling new solution.

"Testimony is truly revolutionary," said Gavin Thornton, IT Senior Application SME - SAP, CBH Group. "We were one of the first to use the product and the result has immediately challenged what we thought we knew about the impact of changes in our systems. It has already fundamentally changed the way we think about testing SAP software. We have evaluated automated testing tools before, but so far none have met our fundamental challenges. It gives us the opportunity to significantly increase the speed and effectiveness of testing, so we can make the changes we need for the business with far more confidence."
Visit Basis Technologies at booth G19 at the DSAG Annual Congress in Bremen from September 26-28 or at http://go.basistechnologies.com/testimony-release-de for more information.

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