Demos and other things

I just got back from a wonderful week-long vacation on the Texas Gulf Coast in Port Aransas. The week before that I spent (1) getting ready for vacation, of course, and (2) recording demos to use in my sessions for the Solution Manager seminar that kicks off June 22 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Some of the demos are pretty straightforward. However, the one on the Test Workbench functionality seemed to take forever! In my recorded demo, I try to show the basic functionality of Test Workbench – the parts that have been around for years – along with the new functionality available in the Solution Manager, enterprise edition, particularly as of SP18 (aka Enhancement Package 1). Highlights:

• Resequencing test cases within a test package
• Assigning individual test cases in a package to individual testers
• Applying dependencies to test case execution
• Workflow available in testing to notify downstream testers that they have test cases to execute

These are fabulous adds, which you realize if you have ever struggled with managing testing in a real-world environment with Solution Manager. They were not completely impossible before, but required many procedures, workarounds, and the flexibility of a Chinese acrobat to pull off adequately.

I still have a couple more demos to record this week before I can call myself ready for the conference. I will consider posting one or two of the demos here, so if you are interested in seeing these, please let me know what areas of Solution Manager are important to you by leaving a comment (link is next to the title of this entry). I recorded all my demos in SAP Tutor (licenses for the player are free with your SAP license), so make sure you install the player before trying to view any demos I post.