How to create thousands of SAP S/4HANA test cases WITHOUT manual work?

Manually creating test cases for your SAP S/4HANA journey is a real challenge

So there’s no doubt that you should perform thorough testing throughout your SAP S/4HANA journey. Because your ERP system handles the most important business processes there are – such as buying, selling and shipping. The literal lifeblood of your business. But testing during SAP S/4HANA projects or programs is not easy. 

Especially nowadays, where many critical processes are integrated with third party systems or partners. Your SAP S/4HANA system is designed to handle complex, integrated, end-to-end business processes. And that’s the exact reason why even creating test cases can be hustle.

Why is manually creating test cases so hard?

First of all, there’s the challenge of the volume of data and scenarios. There are literally thousands of scenarios that you should test in order to have real confidence in the system and business continuity. And because the business processes are so complex and integrated, there are different variants in each of them. And each variant should be tested. Because missing a single scenario could lead to an incomplete testing scenario.

Furthermore, if your processes are integrated with other systems (which they usually are), creating test cases manually requires a deep understanding of data flows and may require additional help from third parties – such as your logistics or warehousing systems provider. No to mention the nature of APIs – which are constantly changing and evolving.

Last but not least, manually creating test cases is a labor intensive task. And with any labor intensive task, the risk of human error is high. And human-made mistakes can lead to inaccurate testing results. Which is always something to avoid.

What’s the alternative then?

The alternative, used by some of the largest companies in the world, is to create test cases from your real, historical data.

If you persisted your previously exchanged messages in your middleware system or SAP backend system – why not just reuse those? If there’s one source of data that is as reliable as it gets when it comes to creating test cases – it’s the messages that were previously exchanged in your real production or quality system. 

By leveraging your historical data, you don’t need to manually create each new test case from scratch which drastically reduces time effort per interface test case preparation – while increasing your test coverage at the same time AND freeing you from the possibility of human error risk.

And how exactly can you reuse your historical messages?

Create the most reliable SAP test cases faster with Int4 Suite

Int4 Suite is a software solution that allows you to speed up the SAP testing while simultaneously increasing its quality with the use of Automated API Testing and SAP Service Virtualization.

With Int4 Suite you can reuse existing communication and messages that you currently exchange with your partners and customers to create thousands of cases that closely resemble real-life scenarios. 

With the use of Int4 Robotic Crawler you can store the original message sent by the partner along with the details of the documents created by this message. And what’s more – it can all be done in the background to continuously scan new messages, ensuring that the testing coverage is accurate.

Int4 Suite supports multiple technologies, including iDoc, Proxy, SAP PI or SAP Cloud Integration messages.

And what’s most important, with the use of Int4 Suite, some of our Enterprise Customers achieved up to 83% time reduction when it comes to test cases preparation. This means going from 87 to just 14 man days. 

So – if more efficient testing and increased confidence in the SAP system is something you’re after, see the video below for an in-depth explanation of this feature:

And if you’d like to learn more about using Int4 in your Enterprise, click the button below and schedule a product demo: