Customer Stories
10/18/23

Test Automation in a Complex SAP Environment

by the Numbers
1993
Established
2,800+
Employees
30
Countries
57
Offices
About the company

Qlik helps enterprises around the world move faster, work smarter, and lead the way forward with an end-to-end solution for getting value out of data. Its Active Intelligence Platform is the only one on the market that allows for open-ended, curiosity-driven exploration, giving everyone – at any skill level – the ability to make real discoveries that lead to real outcomes and transformative changes.

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Results with Copado

2 to 3
10X Faster

Manual Testing Cycles per Year

120
9X Faster

End-to-End Test Scenarios Created

3

Regression Cycles Reduced Days

±150

Scenarios

The Challenge

The testing cycles for the Qlik Gold Client ERP solution were becoming increasingly long due to the complexity of the processes in need of testing and the limited bandwidth. The team was under pressure due to the high volume of manual work required to maintain SAP and other apps.

Qlik tried to address the burden of manual testing with a test automation framework developed in-house. But this was code-heavy, not particularly user friendly, and difficult to maintain. The lack of progress that this framework delivered in terms of Qlik’s test cases led the company down a different path.

Qlik began looking at outside vendors for test automation tools in order to streamline its Quality Assurance process. The company had two specific requirements. First, any solution must work well in an SAP environment, as the Gold Client ERP solution is an SAP-specific solution. Second, Qlik was looking for something that was not highly technical - a no-code or minimal-code solution.

Key Challenges

The Solution

In February 2021, Qlik licensed the Copado testing tool to help automate the Qlik Gold Client testing process. Qlik’s Senior SAP Solutions Engineers, Steve George and Lindsey Foster, along with SAP Data Architect collaborated over 10 months to develop 120 end-to-end test scenarios for the Qlik Gold Client ERP solution.

A major project milestone was reached when these scripts were used to test Qlik’s Gold Client ERP 8.7.2 release. Previous versions required manual testing from multiple Gold Client PS team members taking over four weeks to complete due to competing priorities.

The Future

Using Copado, the 120 end-to-end test scenarios developed for the automated testing process can now be completed within just three days. This reduces the time it takes to release new Gold Client versions and patches to customers and allows for more frequent regression testing. There is also an opportunity to use the Copado product for testing other Qlik SAP solutions.

In the future, Qlik hopes to use Copado as part of a dedicated system where scripts are run every week as code changes are released, with any potential issues addressed in real-time - making testing as simple as pushing a button.

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