SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

Script Development and Preparation in the Real World

The time and tasks related to developing the business process scripts to be executed during test week are discussed in this section. Before we begin, understand that the term test week is used pretty loosely—it’s not unusual for this “week” to actually run two calendar weeks. Most often, though, I have found that a calendar week—about seven days—tends to represent the average amount of time a company actually stress tests their production environment. This clearly does not include time spent in planning and preparation.

Unfortunately, we’re not talking about eight-hour days and lengthy lunches here, either. For the folks engaged in supporting test week, it seems as if no matter what level ...