newmerix - taming peoplesoft testing

7/29/2019 Newmerix - Taming PeopleSoft Testing

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2007 Newmerix Corp.

PeopleSoft Testing:

Taming The Two-Headed MonsterSandy Welp

Regional Sales Director


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2007 Newmerix Corp.2

Newmerix

The Newmerix product suite reduces the costand complexity of managing the ongoing,extensive changes inherent in packaged

application environments. Our solution results ingreater visibility and control over the application

lifecycle and improved business agility.


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Agenda

What Drives Testing in PeopleSoft Environments

Roles in PeopleSoft Change Process

The PeopleSoft Testing Challenge

Introduction to Business Process Documentation

(BPD) Features in Automate!Test How to Maximize the Benefits of BPD

Introduction to Test Script Maintenance Features inAutomate!Test

Summary

Q&A session


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Enterprise Applications Require Change

Business Process Changes Overcome Competition

Improve Service

Cut Costs

Vendor Driven Changes from Oracle and SAP

New Applications

Patches

Improve Quality

M&A

Support Packs

Upgrades

Compliance and Best Practices

Federal, Provincial, and Municipal Regulations

Best Practices (COBIT, ITIL, COSO)


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Roles in the PeopleSoft Change Process

DEMO DEV TEST PROD

TestScripts

Approvals

Technical Team

Requirements /Changes

Functional

Team

Requirementsand Test Scripts

TestScripts

Functional /Management

Sign-off Approvals


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The Two-Headed Monster

of PeopleSoft Testing:

How to seamlessly and painlessly involve bothbusiness users and business analyst/technical users

in testing your PeopleSoft applications

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Business and Technical Users Bring DistinctKnowledge and Skills to This Challenge

DevelopersBusiness User Test ScriptDeveloper

Business Process Expertise

PeopleSoft Application Knowledge

Functional Testing Skills

Automated Test Script DevelopmentSkills


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Effectively creating and maintaining the automated test scripts

Capturing the expertise of business users

Without this knowledge, your testing team can only test the obvious orthe familiar

If you could document your business users process knowledge, youcould turn that knowledge into automated test scripts

If you could document the resulting automated test script, the businessuser can verify it adequately meets the requirements

Maintaining the scripts

Requires input from both functional and technical teams

Required to truly understand the impact of change Without this knowledge errors are made in production either through

lack of knowledge on scope of change or downstream effects of achange.

If you could accurately and easily understand the impact of technicalchanges, you could turn that knowledge into updated automated testscripts.


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What Are Your Options?

Script Creation

Ad-hoc approach

All manual approach using spreadsheets and/or processdocuments

Automated approach using non-PeopleSoft tool

Newmerix Automate!Test with Business Process

Documentation Script Maintenance

Good documentation from vendor

Forms/communication between functional and technicalteams

Manual analysis

Newmerix Automate!Test with Test Script Maintenance and

Business Process Documentation


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Business Process Documentation Features in Automate!Test

Feature Description Benefit

Manual Capture Screen captures with highlighted

actionsAutomatically generated page titles

Builds thumbnail page

Painless capture of

business processes by anyuser

Capture on Test

Script Playback

Automatic capture from any pre-

recorded test script

Automated business

process documentation

Document Editor Remove pages

Custom titles

Full RTF annotation editor

Process documents

tailored to specific user

needs

Document

Publishing

Publish any captured business

process to Microsoft Word document

with a single click

Standard business

document format

Overview of Business Process


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Overview of Business ProcessDocumentation (BPD) Functionality

Manually capture steps in the employee hireprocess using BPD within Automate!Tests

Functional Interface Manually capture process steps

View process steps in BPD document editor

Publish Employee Hire Process document


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Capture Business Process Steps


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View Process in BPD Editor

Annotate eachprocess step

Highlight thespecific actionbeing taken

See thumbnailsfor each step

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Publish to MS Word

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How to Maximize the Benefits of BPD

BPD not only makes it easy to capture business usersknowledge for robust automated test script development, italso provides many other benefits

Captured processes can be documented according toyour process or policy for training users and newemployees and automated testing

Automated test scripts are now self documenting

Published documentation supports consistent execution ofmanual tests when automated testing is not an option

When a PeopleSoft user encounters a problem, BPD can

be used to capture the exact user actions leading up tothe problem, providing the information needed forresolution

Published documentation supports audit and compliance

requirements


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Overview of Test Script Maintenance Functionality

Test Script Maintenance Steps

Snapshot your current test structure

Make changes to environment(s) Run Au toma te ! Test Script Maintenance to map changes to

each automated test script based on technical changesto component, page, record, field, PeopleCode

Work the checklist provided to update your automatedtest scripts

Update your testing documents by re-running the script

Post your updated testing documents to a commonrepository for everyones use

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Newmerix Automate!Test Script Maintenance

PeopleSoft

metadata objectsthat havechanged

Test Script lines

related tometadata objectthat changed

Description ofchange type andhow it will affecttesting


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Update Test Documentation Based on Changes in Scripts

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Post Your New Test Documents

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Summary

Automate!Test

is the first testing application specifically designed for theenvironment, people and technology of PeopleSoft installations

enables business users to create visual documentation of businessprocesses that can be shared with testers

enables both the functional and technical teams to work togetherbased on automated data collection to seamlessly update test scriptsand business process documentation.

Newmerix makes it painless to involve both business users andtechnical users (testers) in testing your PeopleSoft applications

Finally, one product designed

for both heads of the Monster!

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Q&A Session

Please submit your questions or comments

For questions or a copy of the presentation:[email protected]

(refer to The Two-Headed Monster Webinar)

To schedule a demo:Newmerix Sales ([email protected])

(303) 350-3900

Additional Newmerix PeopleSoft resources:

www.newmerix.com/peoplesoft
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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2007 Newmerix Corp.

PeopleSoft Testing:

Taming The Two-Headed MonsterSandra Welp

Regional Sales Director