SAP Cloud ALM in quality assurance
SAP Cloud ALM in quality assurance
SAP announced some time ago that it would be phasing out SAP Solution Manager from maintenance as of 2027, thus indirectly announcing SAP Cloud ALM as its successor.
Is this just an embellished Solution Manager or is there more to it?
Where are the differences in terms of ALM functionalities, what does this mean for quality assurance and thus test automation which is indispensable in S/4HANA projects and agile cloud system landscapes?
Let’s take a look at these questions together in the following blog post!
SAP Cloud ALM – the facts
SAP Cloud ALM is an application lifecycle management tool that was launched by SAP in mid-2020 as SaaS – the licenses for SAP Cloud ALM are included in Enterprise Support, Cloud Edition.
The basic idea is and was to use this product to expand SAP’s ALM track for cloud applications, which was previously occupied by SAP Solution Manager.
Application Lifecycle Management tools help companies to efficiently manage and organize the complete lifecycle of an application from development to operation.
This includes tasks such as requirement management, project management, software development, quality assurance as well as the roll-out of changes (deployment) and maintenance during operation.
Modern, agile project approaches and continuous delivery require efficient processes, including close-meshed quality assurance, in order to keep up with the pace of development. ALM is designed to help accelerate deployments and massively shorten release cycles.
SAP Cloud ALM – SAP Solution Manager
Due to its Saas architecture, SAP is able to provide continuous updates and new functionalities for SAP Cloud ALM, which – by the way – is urgently needed especially at the current state (07/2023), as important features are missing in order to be able to manage and control a complete lifecycle of applications.
The basic idea was to design SAP Solution Manager for on-premise products and SAP Cloud ALM as the ALM tool for cloud applications. Quickly, SAP customers were caught up with the future outlook when, as mentioned earlier, SAP announced the end of maintenance for SAP Solution Manager as 2027.
Of course, Solution Manager can also be used for hybrid system landscapes and especially Cloud ALM, as from 2027 companies will be driven towards replacing SAP Solution Manager.
SAP CLOUD ALM and quality assurance
The most exciting aspect for test automation tool vendors like suxxesso is, of course, quality assurance.
As one of only two currently valid SAP-certified test automation tools integrated into SAP Solution Manager, suxxesso gained extensive know-how in the interaction of Solution Manager with our suxxesso Tool Suite.
This knowledge includes, among other things, the effort required to perform efficient quality assurance in Solution Manager, as well as knowledge of the additional preparatory work required – in consideration of the (lack of) usability of Solution Manager.
At the same time, suxxesso drives forward and will continue to push ahead the integration in Cloud ALM in order to offer those customers who are among the early adopters the usual comprehensive and stable integrations in SAP tools.
The first conclusion, viewed purely in terms of the integration and the test process, is entirely positive.
Important core elements of test automation, such as managing “systems under test”, the ability to orchestrate test chains, run role-based tests and also integrate third-party applications into quality assurance, have been placed in the hands of test automation tools.
Integrated tools such as our suxxesso Tool Suite are not limited to pure automation and test case playback, but can bring their full strength to bear – as stated in the points above.
SAP has given suxxesso gmbh massive support, especially in supporting all suxxesso Data Manager functionalities, role steps and cross-system test cases, and has also opened up the interface to our requirements.
This means that Cloud ALM customers can also use the full range of THE most highly specialized SAP test automation solution on the market, in contrast to the limited integration option in SAP Solution Manager. This again brings massive advantages over traditional, generalist test automation tools.
Convince yourself of the possibilities and the integration of suxxesso Tool Suite in SAP Cloud ALM during the DSAG Annual Congress in Bremen, where we will offer a live insight into our integration and highly specialized SAP test automation in our partner presentation “Live Test Automation for Cloud ALM: Gamechanger in SAP-Projects”
SAVE THE DATE!
DSAG Annual Bremen (19. – 21.09.2023)
Visit us in the exhibition at our booth A4 and don’t miss our lecture on the topic Cloud ALM:
suxxesso lecture on 19.09.2023, 17:45 – 18:30: “Live test automation for SAP Cloud ALM: Gamechanger in SAP projects”, SAP test automation in S/4 HANA with reporting & management in SAP Cloud ALM.
We are looking forward to your visit!
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