PeopleSoft Testing Made Easy - How To Reduce Your Testing Cost and Not Your Hairline

Eddie UrendaJune 14th, 2011

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Introduction

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• The Green Edge Award 2010 for using IT to maximize business impact.

• Leaders category for The 2010 Global Outsourcing 100 by IAOP

• Ranked N0: 18 in the NASSCOM’s Top 20 IT Service Providers India (2009-2010)

• Top 100 Innovative service Provider by Global Services• CIO 100 Ingenious Award• Best Employers for five consecutive years (2005 – 2009)• Ranked amongst the 500 best performing Mid-sized

Companies in India by Inc.India for outstanding ingenuity and determination shown during the toughest of the economic times.

Hexaware Overview: Key Facts

6,664Employees globally

(Mar ’11)

50Million dollar clients

(Mar ’11)

32Offices worldwide

180Active Clients served worldwide

(Mar ’11)

231.2$ mn Revenues in

CY ’10

Delivery centers in Mumbai, Chennai, Nagpur, Pune, Mexico, Bangalore, New Jersey

Industry Recognitions

Golden Peacock Award

CertificationsCMMI Level 5, ISO 9001 & ISO 27001, SAS 70 Type II, PCIDSS

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Background on Hexaware and PeopleSoft

• PeopleSoft Alliance Partner since 1997 – today

• # 1 PeopleSoft Service Provider with 350+ engagements

• 1000 + PeopleSoft Consultants

• 40 + Successful PeopleSoft Upgrades

• 25 + Successful Implementations

• 10 + Global ASM Implementations

• Proven experience in implementing and upgrading PeopleSoft release 9.1 projects, PeopleSoft's most recent platform release

• PeopleSoft R&D division with intellectual property investments for both manual and automated:

• PeopleSoft Testing Accelerator Kit (PTAK)

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Hexaware PeopleSoft Testing Competencies

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Agenda

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Session Agenda

• Hindsight is 20/20: How to improve testing for upgrades and implementations

• Five things that we would like to drill into your heads before leaving today´s webinar

• A look at case studies and FAQ’s• Q&A session

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Hindsight is 20/20 – How you Can Learn From What We Have Learned...

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• PS testing is not easy – but can be made easier via reusable manual and automating testing assets – Why reinvent the wheel?

• Testing never start as early as it should: early test team and interface owner involvement needed (agile often exarcebates this problem)

• Data refresh strategy is often an afterthough – define this at the start!

• Development should not be the only testing team during an implementation or upgrade

• Familiarity with AS-IS and Fit Gap documents are key for solid testing

What we have learned from our PeopleSoft Engagements

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5 Things We Want You To Remember

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1. PS implementations and upgrades require independent testing

2. Test team should be involved from requirement gathering for AS-IS and Fit Gap documents

3. Data refreshing strategy needs to be part of test strategy/planning documents

4. SIT testing needs to connect to interface owners early for environment and data readiness

5. Automation by itself is not the solution to all your testing problems: domain expertise and strategic vendors are key

Five Things You Should Know

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PeopleSoft Testing FAQ’s

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FAQ’s

• Is automation the solution to all my testing problems?

• Does PTAK offer a solution to validate Payroll?

• Is it possible to test an integration of two PS modules using PTAK?

• How expansive is your test case coverage?• What does PTAK offer for manual and

automated testing?• Will this webinar solve all my PS problems?

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Automation & PTAK

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PTAK- Key Differentiators

Dedicated PeopleSoft Testing Practice with over 100 + PeopleSoft test consultants

Comprehensive set of manual test scenarios for major modules of PeopleSoft HR and Financial product lines

Independent of regions, products and platforms

Jumpstarts the testing activity with traceability to the functional requirements

BPT Accelerators allow non-technical Subject Matter Experts (SME) to create fully functional end-to-end business process tests.

Pre-built components are easily uploaded to an HP Quality Center environment in minutes.

Enables your testing teams to begin the test design process earlier in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

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Test for business applications: top 5 issues

Maintaining tests artifacts as the application changes

Creating test components quickly for a new module or version

Modeling complex business application scenarios

Enabling less technical users to create tests

Create test automation suite & support operations in parallel

Traditional manual/automation approaches fall short

Testing challenges for PeopleSoft Apps

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Testing Effort and Risk

3rd Generation “Test Acceleration” Tools: BPT Accelerators from

Hexaware

Library or pre-built test components for ERP apps

Automatically scans the ERP metadata to generate all necessary test components

Eliminates record/replay activitiesSignificantly reduces upfront

development time while speeding time to ROI

Greatly reduces ongoing maintenance due to re-scanning capabilities

Testing Enterprise Applications - 3 Generations

1st Generation “Record and Replay”

Tools: WinRunner, QuickTest Pro, Rational Robot

×Required many man hours to record and program each script

×A lot of duplication of activities

×High degree of ongoing maintenance

×Required programming support

2nd Generation “Business Process”

Tools: BPT from HP

Allowed for componentizing pieces of test cases

Reduced development time of test casesMinimized maintenance due to component

concept“Drag and drop” tests

×Still had to record test scripts

×Maintenance at script level still required

×Required significant programming support

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BPT Accelerator Infrastructure

Foundation Library

Application Library

Business Components

Business Process

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BPT Accelerator Process

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Q&A

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