SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

System-Level Stress Testing and Pre-Tuning

Although one of the goals of SAP stress testing is to guide and direct tuning of your soon-to-be-production system, it makes sense to engage in a certain level of pre-tuning as well. This involves testing and tweaking the individual solution stack layers and components to operate well in a standalone manner. When things run smoothly in this respect, you can then more intelligently optimize the entire technology stack to perform as a cohesive solution of integrated components and technologies.

Testing the individual components or layers in your particular SAP Solution Stack is also often referred to as system-level testing or systems testing, and will save you countless hours and much energy down the ...