Blog Editor’s note: In his last post, Panaya’s Director of Product Management for Testing Solutions Serge Lazimi, discussed the disadvantages of using Excel for functional testing. In this second of the series, Serge presents answers and closes with a not-to-be-missed anecdote.

Turn 30 Minutes Into 5 Minutes

“So we’ve established that Excel isn’t the right tool for application testing, although it is still the most commonly used! What these companies really need is a solution that is right in the middle, between Excel and on-premise & heavy test management tools. SAP testers at software testing services company, small or large, are not professional testers – testing is simply a small part of their daily activities. Because of a lack of an intermediate solution which would equip them efficiently, they often end up being overloaded with many administrative tasks related to testing. What we are trying to do at Panaya is to reduce this overload and let them focus on what they are really good at.

Let’s look at what a functional user (IT or Business) typically needs to do while testing their part of a business process:

• Receive notification from another peer (predecessor in the testing cycle)
• Check their guidelines
• Understand what was tested by other users in the business process
• Execute the test
• Document the test results
• Find the next person
• Send email to the next person

This process is a small part of the SAP testing relay race; it is multiplied by the number of persons involved in each business process to test.

At Panaya, we take this ENTIRE checklist from the tester’s responsibility by automating and accelerating the testing process. Our SAP testing acceleration solution shrinks a 30 minute testing process into 5 minutes!

• The tester doesn’t need to figure out what they’re expected to do.
• The tester doesn’t need to waste critical time documenting their tests.
• The tester doesn’t need to find and notify the next tester.
• The tester spends 5 minutes performing his or her test, focusing on what they are good at: ensuring the business processes work as expected.

By making sure you have the right information in the right place, we drastically reduce the time it takes to perform testing by 80%. Panaya keeps your testing knowledge in one centralized place so the many people who have to access it don’t spend unnecessary time pushing things through the testing cycle.