Continuous SAP Testing – Test SAP integration non-stop with Int4 Suite

Why is testing NON-STOP more important than ever?

SAP Landscapes are undergoing significant transformations that demand new testing approaches. New systems, new tools, new expectations. But with this change comes a challenge: traditional testing simply isn’t keeping up.

Major migration programs – like SAP PI/PO to SAP Integration Suite – introduce a new reality. With more frequent updates, shorter release cycles and less control over timing of the changes.

In the past, you could delay an upgrade or combine several updates into one big bang release once a year. That’s no longer the case. Today, changes land in your development and test tenants whether you’re ready or not. And production follows close behind.

One thing is clear – we’re entering the era of non-stop change.

Other trends are present as well

At the same time, trends like Composable ERP are on the rise. Companies connect more and more specialized apps to their core SAP landscape. And this, in consequence, makes SAP Integration more and more important.

But wherever there’s integration, there must be proper integration TESTING. But this piece often gets overlooked.

As a result of all these changes:

· Your business now runs on integrations that change constantly.
· Updates you don’t control can quietly break those connections.
· Traditional testing methods can’t keep up – and often won’t catch failures in time.

Example of the change with SAP PI/PO to SAP IS migrations

Under SAP PI/PO, customers controlled their own updates. Many enterprises would “group” them and then test them all at once – for example once a year. But with SAP Integration Suite, it’s the SAP that owns the release calendar. And updates hit your systems automatically.

One of Int4 Customers had a custom integration logic for EDI files. SAP then introduced a similar logic “out-of-the-box” in a new release – and suddenly, the same data was sent twice. And situations like this one will happen more and more.

That’s why more companies are turning to Continuous SAP Testing.

What is Continuous SAP Testing?

Picture this: you’re starting a long awaited car trip across Europe. You’re going to be driving through mountains, highways, heatwaves, and rainstorms… Would you check your tire pressure once before leaving – or would you rather rely on real-time sensors that alert you the second something’s off with your tire pressure? That’s the difference.

Traditional testing = one-time checks before go-live.
Continuous testing = built-in monitoring that travels with you.

Continuous SAP Testing is simply the practice of testing your integrations and processes automatically, regularly, and in sync with every change you make (or every change the SAP or your partners make for you).

This approach allows you to boost confidence in your most critical processes like buying, selling, shipping and invoicing – even when the ground is shifting under your feet.

How is it different?

In most SAP projects, test cases are built for a specific purpose, used once or twice – and then rarely updated.

Continuous testing flips this on its head. With modern tools like Int4 Suite, you can automatically build a living library of real-world test cases – and then execute them every night.

In this way, testing stops being just a “checkbox” to mark – and becomes your security system. And the benefits are clear, as Continuous SAP Testing allows you to catch issues before they hit production – no matter how frequent the changes get.

Why isn’t Continuous Testing a standard in SAP?

While many companies recognise Continuous SAP Testing as an important direction, there are challenges that slow the progress towards this direction.

First, there’s a lack of processes that would allow companies to properly introduce Continuous Testing. Even when test cases are created during a project, they’re often abandoned afterward. A year later, half of them are outdated and unusable. And for a good reason – without proper tools, updating test cases manually would be simply too costly.

Second, testing is often siloed. Developers throw changes over the wall to testers, who might not even understand the process well enough to build a meaningful test – let alone automate it.

And third: companies need a mindset shift on why building a proper testing framework is worth the time and resources it takes. Setting up new tools and frameworks isn’t easy – but what many don’t understand is that it’s far safer, more effective and less time consuming in the long run.

Simply put – not every company needs it.

Now, to be fair – not every company needs continuous testing. If your company only has a handful of interfaces – you’re probably fine.

But if you’re serious about agility, scale, and reliability? Then Continuous Testing isn’t a luxury – it’s essential. Simply because there’s no “small change” when it comes to SAP Integration!

Looking for Continuous SAP Testing tools? Learn more about Int4 Suite.

As mentioned before, proper Continuous SAP Testing requires modern SAP Testing Tools. and one that’s built exactly for this job is Int4 Suite.

Capability #1 – Automated Test Case Creation

With Int4 Suite, you can create thousands of test cases in minutes. Because Int4 Suite’s Robotic Crawler allows you to fetch your real-life messages and turn them into high-quality test cases.

Then, this tool has features that allow you to validate your test data coverage – that allow you to choose best test cases to automatically execute.

Capability #2 – Automated Test Runs

After you have created the testing library of thousands of test cases – you can now automatically execute them.

With Int4 Suite, automated test runs can be triggered directly from pipelines like Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins – fitting seamlessly into your CI/CD process.

What’s even better is the fact that some companies do that periodically – e.g. execute test cases automatically every week… Or even every night.

Capability #3 – Easy validation of results

If you execute thousands of test cases, you need a way to easily validate the results. And that’s also a feature of Int4 Suite. As you can see that in a glance:

What’s more – you can also enable e-mail notifications that will notify you if something goes wrong.

Int4 Suite is scalable!

Aside from these core features, Int4 Suite is a great Continuous SAP Testing tool, because of its scalability. For example, once a test case is created (for example from your production data), you can reuse it across many teams AND environments – like Development, QA and Production.

This means you don’t have to rebuild test cases for every team, system or for every new project.

Test non-stop with Int4 Suite

In a world that is always changing, you need to test non-stop. And that’s exactly what Int4 Suite allows you to do.

Whether you’re migrating to SAP Integration Suite, upgrading to SAP S/4HANA or simply have a hard time managing hundreds of interfaces in your day-to-day, Int4 Suite give you the tools to safely, consistently and efficiently test your SAP Integration.

Ready to see how it works? Book a demo of Int4 Suite and let’s test your SAP non-stop!