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10. Missing flow processes, diagrams
Diagramming or modeling how a business scenario will flow within SAP
provides invaluable insights to the testing team and the
configuration team. Diagrams and flow processes can illustrate the
lifecycle, stages, sequences, activities, states and events
associated with a particular business process. Unfortunately, many
projects undergoing an SAP implementation or SAP upgrade fail to
diagram their business processes leaving testers or newly hired
resources in a bind to comprehend how legacy processes, or new
customizations derived from gap analysis will be executed within
SAP. SAP testers and end users participating in the user’s
acceptance test should have access to diagrams depicting how
business processes flow within SAP. The absence of such diagrams
puts undue burden on the testing team and places the end users in a
position of disadvantage.
The SAP business analysts in conjunction with the SAP configuration
team, and possibly the SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) can develop
diagrams in tools such as Visio, or the ARIS modeling tool that
integrates and links with SAP’s Q&adb (Question and answer database)
for those SAP implementations following the ASAP methodology.
Alternatively, with Rational’s tools one can develop UML (Unified
Modeling Language) diagrams to illustrate processes with interaction
diagrams (sequence and activity diagrams).
 
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