YPFB Andina: Enabling Test Management with

SAP Solution Manager and SAP ActiveEmbedded

Company
YPFB Andina S.A.
Location
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Industry
Oil and gas
Products and Services
Petroleum and natural gas

Employees
383
Web Site
www.ypfb-andina.com.bo

Objectives
Establish test management processes and standards
Adopt SAP Solution Manager as the central tool for test management
Increase the transparency of change impact on business processes
Reduce regression test efforts
Decrease operational errors due to ongoing and upcoming changes
Empower employees responsible for application lifecycle management (ALM)
Why SAP
Holistic ALM strategy, including processes based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library standards
and practices
Comprehensive and precise business impact analyses
Expert support and knowledge transfer
Benefits
Central tool to support test management activities
Visibility into the impact on business processes using business process change analyzer functionality
Automatic definition of test scope for regression testing
Decrease in test efforts using test scope optimization
Elimination of risk and disruptions to critical business process operations
Traceability of test management activities

Using a rapid-deployment solution, we were able to implement an ALM strategy based on our
requirements. SAP ActiveEmbedded services and SAP Solution Manager helped us deploy test
management processes based on best practices recommended by SAP. While test workbench
functionality helped with test planning and execution, business process change analyzer functionality
and test scope optimization helped decrease efforts and minimize risk for regression testing.

Smart
Test management, with
SAP Solution Manager
as the central solution
supporting functional,
integration, regression, and
user-acceptance testing

Economical
Tests through a reduction of
test plan management and test
execution efforts empowered
by test workbench and
business process change
analyzer functionality in
SAP Solution Manager

Safe
Business process operations,
thanks to change impact
analysis on transports en route
to production that mitigate risk
for critical business processes

Daniel Leon Pfeiffer, SAP Application Lead, YPFB Andina S.A.

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