SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Three Types of Business Process Testing

Different goals exist in regard to testing business processes. In the most generic sense, functional testing represents any business-process–specific testing executed to ensure that the business process works. In other words, every applicable option, every drop-down menu selection, every radio button, and so on needs to be tested initially, and then retested after every change.

Integration testing takes functional testing to the next level, ensuring that an organization’s business processes work together with other business processes, both within and across multiple functional areas, such that the SAP system as a whole operates as expected. Thus, much of the work prior to Go-Live falls under the category ...