HP Quality Center

Pros 1. Comprehensive Test Management (Most widely used and Centralized test management tool addressing all the phases starting from Releases to Analysis and Reporting) 2. Effective Defect Management with traceability across all the testing activities 3. Efficient Business Process Testing enabling users to design and execute software tests without any programming knowledge 4. Easy to use (easily adaptable) 5. Supports integration with various automation tools including QTP, Load Runner 6. Open for integration with 3rd Party Tools (Solution Manager, Remedy, Version control tools like VSS) 7. Can be easily customized (flexibility) for SAP and Non-SAP Test Management activities.

HP QTP
Pros 1. Empower the entire team to create sophisticated test suites 2. Establish correct functionality across all environments, data sets and business processes 3. Fully document and replicate defects for developers. 4. Easily regression test the ever-changing applications and environments 5. Deliver quality products and services and improve revenues and profitability 6. Operates standalone or integrated with HP Business Process Testing and HP Quality Center 7. Enables collaboration among workgroups with shared function libraries, robust object management and flexible asset storage within HP Quality Center 8. Can log defects into the test management tool directly from QTP.

HP BPT
Pros 1. Designed for the usage of SME's, Business Analysts, Non-technical Business application experts. 2. Create business component content in the form of manual steps and expected results, and create and insert parameters into the steps directly from the Design Steps tab. 3. Reusability of existing business components. 4. Grouping Business components for Test scenarios.

5. Specifically designed for the usage of SME's, Busines Analysts, Managerial level, Non technical Business application experts.

HP LR
Pros 1. Supports performance testing new technologies together with existing, legacy applications 2. Decreases the risk of deploying systems that do not meet performance requirements 3. Reduces hardware and software costs by accurately predicting application scalability and capacity 4. Helps you establish intelligent service-level management before services go live 5. Shortens test cycles to accelerate delivery of high-quality applications 6. Pinpoints end-user, system-level, and code-level bottlenecks rapidly and with ease 7. Reduces the cost of defects by testing earlier in the application lifecycle

HP Performance Center
Pros 1. Performance Center Dashboard gives a complete picture of the status of the projects in each load. 2. Enables remote testing by anybody, from anywhere, at any time, eliminating the need to travel. 3. Enables multiple concurrent tests, replacing serial testing with parallel testing. 4. Enables remote management from anywhere through a Web server. 5. Performance Center is a complete system for managing load tests, scripts and time slots. 6. Performance Center centralizes the testing environment, with no duplication of testing labs, keeping costs down and minimizing time. 7. Enables you to take advantage of the power of the Web for supporting services such as remote consulting, online support, and so on.

SAP Solution Manager

1. As a part of the SAP package ,relatively easy to integrate with other SAP Modules 2. No additional cost for SAP testing

SAP e-CATT
1. Pros Test the effect of changes to customizing settings.

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Perform load testing.

3. All eCATT Objects are Repository Objects. Therefore one can take advantage of Standard SAP Transport Tools & download/upload in XML with XSD format. 4. There can be several versions of Test Scripts, which allows different implementations with different releases.

5. The separation of Test Scripts, Test Data & System Data allows for a considerable degree of reuse.

6. Proved to be extremely useful in SAP implementation projects.

HP QC & SAP SM
1. Pros Robust Test Management for SAP R/3.

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Robust Test Management for SAP R/3.

2. Reusability of some of the existing test entities between Solution Manager and QC (Requirements can be imported to Quality Center and the Test Results can be posted back to Solution Manager).

HP QTP & SAP e-CATT Pros 1. Huge options for testing SAP R/3 applications using the features of both QTP & e-CATT. 2. Reusability of some of the existing test entities between QTP & e-CATT.

Cons 1. License &Support Costs: QC Users License, Add-ins License(BPT Add-in) and Support Service 2. User Training :Time & effort for training

Cons 1. User should know VB Scripting for effective automation. 2. License & Support costs. 3. Require additional add-ins to test based on application technology.

Cons 1. License & Support costs.

2. User Training :Time & effort for training

Cons 1. License & Support costs. 2. User Training :Time & effort for training

Cons 1. License & Support costs. 2. User Training :Time & effort for training

Cons

1. Not widely used for Test Management activities (Mostly used as Repository for Cat-3 Projects than as a Test Management Tool) 2. License &Support Costs : Users License, Integration with other modules and Support Service 3. User Training :Time & effort for training 4. Limited ability to customize and tailor test activities at a Project level 5. Requires additional time and effort to integrate with Non-SAP technologies like JAVA,.Net etc 6. Relatively difficult to adapt by the Non-SAP users

Cons 1. Limited only SAP R/3 applications. 2. Limited support for external applications that might play a role in an organization's extended enterprise solution. For example, CATT cannot support user interfaces outside of the SAPGUI for Windows or the JavaGUI. 3. Limited support for distributed SAP system landscapes, resulting in the need to code SAP remote function call (RFC) destinations in your scripts (or to build multiple test cases across your SAP enterprise to simulate an end-to-end business process). 4. Limited function module support; calendar functions are available, for example, but there is no function module support for tabular parameters. 5. Controls and other technology (such as tree controls and list viewers) found in more recent releases of SAP and the EnjoySAP SAPGUI are not supported, thereby severely limiting the "testability" of certain business processes. 6. Limited ability to execute testing remotely; it's possible (again, through RFC calls to SAP systems, or multiple test cases otherwise), but represents a lot of work in terms of script development and management.

Cons 1. License &Support Costs:

HP-License Cost for Enterprise Integration Add-ins from HP SAP-License Cost for Adapter and required Add-ins from SAP. Support Cost from both HP & SAP 2. Time and effort for integration and configurations(Roles, User Profile set up, add-ins, setting up parameters) in both the QC & SM 3. User Training: Cross tool training and coordination required 4. May cause Performance issues on SAP and/or HP side.

Cons 1. 2. 3. 4. License &Support Costs. Time and effort for integration and configurations. User Training: Cross tool training and coordination required May cause Performance issues on SAP and/or HP side.

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Support for Java, .Net Application Environments Picturial Testing

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