Sucid Delivers First SAP Testing Product For Business Users; Company Extends Product Line With SAP Functional, Business Process and Regression Testing Capabilities

Sucid Corporation, the leader in SAP testing, announced today at the 2005 ASUG Annual Conference that it has released Sucid Function, a new product that fully automates SAP functional testing. Sucid Function enables SAP business analysts and users to rapidly create, run and see the results of end-to-end business process tests without the need for complex script development. This enables large enterprises to reduce SAP test budgets by millions of dollars, increase test coverage to improve SAP quality and maintain comprehensive, continuous functional regression testing to ensure business continuity.

Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) May 3, 2005 -- Sucid Corporation, the leader in SAP testing, announced today at the 2005 ASUG Annual Conference that it has released Sucid Function, a new product that fully automates SAP functional testing. Sucid Function enables SAP business analysts and users to rapidly create, run and see the results of end-to-end business process tests without the need for complex script development. This enables large enterprises to reduce SAP test budgets by millions of dollars, increase test coverage to improve SAP quality and maintain comprehensive, continuous functional regression testing to ensure business continuity.

The simplest form of SAP software testing is functional testing. SAP functional test cases execute individual SAP transactions and test to see that the transactions produce the expected results. Sucid Function automates the capture of SAP transactions input by a business user or business analyst and enables the user to attach functional test cases to each transaction without the need for script development skills or time.

While SAP functional testing is relatively simple, SAP business process testing can be quite complex. Sucid Function also enables full SAP business process testing by transparently automating the management of transaction dependencies, data dependencies and user security across end-to-end business processes so that users do not have to do any script development to manage these very complicated test dependencies.

Sucid Function also fully automates SAP regression testing to deliver iterative verification of SAP as the system evolves over time, both during major implementations and during the years between these major projects as the companys business processes and SAP applications continually change.

Major SAP projects - whether they are new implementations, major version upgrades, or customizations - carry significant price tags, and test budgets for a major SAP project at a Fortune 100 company can easily reach or exceed US$10 million. Most of this cost is generated by the large staff of highly trained, expensive consultants who must be engaged to develop complex test scripts using traditional test automation tools. Sucid Function automates these tasks to such a high degree that test budgets can often be reduced by 70-80%.

In addition, the traditional model of SAP testing breaks down once the project has been rolled into production and the scripting consultants leave. As changes are made to SAP, test scripts begin to fail, and no one is left at the company to maintain them. Companies cannot afford to permanently staff expensive teams of developers to keep test suites up-to-date. Within a few months, most of the test cases no longer run properly, and businesses are left without the means to effectively test SAP as changes continue to be made to the applications.

Sucid Function uniquely addresses these challenges by focusing completely on SAP. While other test automation products are generic and are built to handle any application architecture -- Web, client/server, Citrix and others -- Sucid Function was built from the ground up specifically to automate SAP software testing.

Sucid Function is written largely in ABAP and is embedded into the SAP application server itself, so it is has unmatched visibility into the internals of the SAP applications. This is critical to automating test tasks, and it makes the test cases created using Sucid Function very resilient to change. It also means that business users can interact with Sucid Function using the SAP user interface, with which they are very comfortable.

Sucid will begin its first implementation of Sucid Function with one of its Fortune 500 customers during the month of May.

We are very excited to add this SAP functional and regression test automation product to our product line," said David Wilson, president and CEO of Sucid. Combined with our products for SAP load, stress and performance test automation, Sucid can now meet all our customers needs for SAP testing in a way that no other vendor can."

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About Sucid

Sucid Corporation is the leading provider of SAP software testing products, services and solutions. Sucid solutions enable SAP customers to continuously ensure SAP application quality and business continuity, significantly cut testing costs, reduce the time required for testing, and convert the test expenditure from a throw-away cost into a leveraged investment. Sucid Corporation is a private company based in Austin, Texas.

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