SAP TAO

SAP Test Acceleration & Optimization (TAO) is the latest technology for test automation on SAP systems.  Having come a long way since version 1.0, SAP TAO version 2.0 and above includes the latest innovations in test automation to reduce the development time of automated scripts and lower the maintenance costs traditionally associated with test.

Based on the Business Process Testing (BPT) framework, SAP TAO has a number of modules which not only increase the speed of automated test creation on SAP technology through an intuitive interface but also reduce the maintenance by reading the SAP transports for information related to application change.

With the Process Flow Analyzer (PFA), which detects user interactions, it’s possible to generate Business Process Testing scripts faster than ever with data tables generated on the fly.  Once the scripts have been developed with the PFA, they can be executed on demand.

Traditional test automation suffers from high maintenance as scripts become unstable once an application changes making agile developments difficult to support.

In SAP TAO 2.0 and above any changes within the SAP transport mechanism can be detected using the Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA).  The BPCA find areas of the application which have changed in a transport and creates a report showing which automated test cases are affected by the change allowing proper change impact analysis.

Furthermore the BPCA also supports technical updates of the automated scripts on the fly drastically reducing maintenance and differentiating itself from other solutions in the market.

IOVIO are recognized experts in SAP TAO delivering over 20 SAP TAO engagements globally within the last 2 years and are a Special Expertise Partner of SAP providing workshops, Proof of Concepts, implementations, reviews and custom SAP TAO developments to some of the largest customers in the world.