Change Impact Analysis Using SAP Business Process Change Analyzer and IBM Rational Tools Rajeev Gollapudi SAP Labs India Steven Pitschke IBM Rational

Change Impact Analysis Using SAP Business Process Change Analyzer and IBM Rational Tools

Rajeev GollapudiSAP Labs India

Steven PitschkeIBM Rational

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Change is Critical to Business Innovation

BusinessDrivers

ComplianceDrivers

ITDrivers

Maintenance

Upgrades

Regional rollouts

Modified Business Processes

M&A and Reorganizations

New Products, Vendors, …

Governance

Risk Management

Compliance

Examples: SOX, SEC, FDA, Basel2

… these change events impact the life cycle of Enterprise Solutions

There are 3 key drivers for change events…

Consolid.

New Implem.

Upgrades

Custom Dev.Support

Pack

Hot Packs

Eff

ort

Ongoing ChangeEvents

New business process

Time

Discrete Change Events

CustomDev.Support

Pack

CustomDev.



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Application Lifecycle Management with SAP Solution Manager and IBM Rational software

SAP Solution Manager

End-to-end Quality Management is a key element of effective Application Lifecycle Management to help lower costs and improve deployment success

End-to-end Quality Management is a key element of effective Application Lifecycle Management to help lower costs and improve deployment success

IBM Rational



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End-to-end Quality and Test Management with SAP Solution Manager and IBM Rational software

Rational Quality Manager

• Test Planning

• Test Requirements

• Business requirements linked with test cases


• Test Planning

• Test Requirements

• Business requirements linked with test cases


• Lab Management

• Defect Tracking


• Lab Management

• Defect Tracking

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• Automated Functional Testing

Worksoft Certify for SAP

• Automated Functional Testing

Rational Performance Tester

• Load and Stress Test

Rational Performance Tester

• Load and Stress Test

Rational ClearQuest

• Defect and Change management

Rational ClearQuest

• Defect and Change management

Business Blueprint Business BlueprintTest Planning

and Set-upTest Planning

and Set-up Test Execution Test Execution Deploy Changes to Production

Deploy Changes to ProductionChange Impact

AnalysisChange Impact

AnalysisSAP Solution

UpdateSAP Solution

Update

New SAP SolutionNew SAP Solution

• Setup of lean Test system

• Setup of lean Test system

Rational Requisite Pro

• Business to IT requirements

Rational Requisite Pro

• Business to IT requirements

Solution Manager

Business Process Change Analyzer

Identification of business processes affected by code / customizing changes

Solution Manager

Business Blueprint

Setup of business process hierarchy

Business requirements

SAP TDMS

Solution Manager

Service Desk• Incident Management



Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA)Motivation and Approach

Change Impact AnalysisChange Impact Analysis Test PlanningTest Planning Test ExecutionTest Execution

Identification of

business processes

affected by change

Risk-based Test

Recommendation

Test Case review

and creation of

missing test cases

Test Plan

generation

Regression Tests

Manual Tests

Automated Tests

SAP Solution updates occur frequently

SAP triggered: Support Packages, Enhancement Packages

Customer triggered: Customizing changes, Custom code development

Approach

Pain Point

Motivation

Which critical business processes are affected by planned changes?

SAP SolutionUpdate



SAP Solution Manager - Business Process Change Analyzer

Order to Cash

PreparationTrace Result:Technical Bill of Material (T-BOM)

Code: Function modules, …

UI: Dynpro 1000, …

Tables: Customizing, Master Data

Change Impact Analysis

“Which critical Business Processes

will be affected by planned changes?”

Planned Change

SAP Support Packs

SAP EhPs

Custom Code

Customizing changes

Order to Cash

Sales Order code change

Delivery

Goods Issue UI change

Billing

Procure to Pay

Create PO customizing change


Risk-based Test Scope

“Can I get a recommendation

for regression tests?”


Identification of business processes impacted by

software changes

Support decision making whether planned change shall

be executed

Automatic test plan generation

Manual execution of process step

Automated WS Certify, SAP TAO..

Trace to identify objects by process



Preparation - Business Process Documentation

Lean Process DocumentationBPCA requires a process hierarchy, system information and executables to be documented in a project or

a solution.

Process hierarchyBusiness scenarioBusiness processesBusiness steps

System information

Transactions, custom development



TBOM generation

Customer SAP Landscape (SAP ERP, …)Customer SAP Landscape (SAP ERP, …)

Business Scenario “Order to Cash” Quotation Sales Order BillingDelivery

Process Step „Sales Order“

2. User executes the process step while BPCA

traces all SAP objects used

Business Blueprint

3. Generated TBOM contains

Code Objects, User Interfaces

and Tables used

1. User selects process step

in SAP Solution Manager

execute



BPCA Technical Bill of Material (TBOM) TBOM Example for Business Transaction: Create Sales Order (VA01)



BPCA Use Case 1: Customizing Changes

Example: „Create Sales Order“- input field „Purchase Order: from optional mandatory

DEVDEV TSTTST PRDPRD

Change Impact AnalysisChange Impact Analysis

Test RecommendationTest Recommendation

Transport

Identification of impacted business processes

BPCA Use Case 1: Customizing Changes*BPCA Use Case 1: Customizing Changes*

Generation of Test Plan

Customizing ChangesSW ChangeSW Change



BPCA Use Case 2: Custom Code Developments

Example: Extention of existing SAP screen with custom required field




Transport


BPCA Use Case 2: Custom Code DevelopmentsBPCA Use Case 2: Custom Code Developments


Custom Code DevelopmentsSW ChangeSW Change



BPCA Use Case 3: Planned EhP Business Function Activation

BPCA Use Case 3: Planned activation of inactive Business FunctionsBPCA Use Case 3: Planned activation of inactive Business Functions

Example: inactive Enterprise Business Function „Advanced Order Processing and Billing“




planned Bus.Function activation

Identification of impacted business processes before BF

activation


deployed EhP

End-user training plan



BPCA Use Case 4: Test Scope Optimization for SP/ EhP Deployment

Example: Deployment of EhP 4 for SAP ERP




SP / EhP


Generation of Test Plan with risk-based test scope

SAP Support Package / Enhancement Package Deployment

BPCA Use Case 4: SP / EhP Deployment and Test Scope OptimizationBPCA Use Case 4: SP / EhP Deployment and Test Scope Optimization



BPCA Integration with IBM Rational Quality Manager

Customer uses Rational Quality Manager for creation and Maintenance of Tests

Customer uses BPCA for change impact analysis

Customer needs to create a test plan/test suite in Rational Quality Manager based on the BPCA Analysis results

The integration makes use of test scope optimization in SAP Solution Manager 7.1

SAP Solution Manager Connector for IBM Rational 4.0

Change Impact analysisChange Impact analysis

Trigger Test plan generationTrigger Test plan generation

Find Test Cases based on impacted requirement

Find Test Cases based on impacted requirement

Send Test Case InformationSend Test Case Information

Automatic Test Plan CreationAutomatic Test Plan Creation

Test Scope OptimizationTest Scope Optimization

Business Process Change AnalyzerBusiness Process Change Analyzer



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