Testing Strategies

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Testing Strategies
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Agenda

• Introductions
• Who is Paradigm?
• Types of Testing Post Implementation
• Patches
• Enhancements or Additions
• Upgrades
• Why?
• What?
• How?
• When?
• Where?
• Who?

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Introductions

• Barb Bliznak
• Managing Director
• 281-744-9808 cell
• 281-213-9612 home office
• bbliznak_at_paradigm-erp.com
• Lori Waters
• Client Services Manager
• 724-873-9001 office
• lwaters_at_paradigm-erp.com

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Mission Statement

• To focus and commit to our customers success.
  Furthermore, to turn every engagement into a long
  term partnership with our customers.

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History

• Founded in 1999
• Merger of HR and Financial/Supply chain
  integrators to provide end to end ERP integration
  
• Staff approaching 80 consultants (full time and
  dedicated contractors)
• Certified Lawson Partner
• Full Implementations
• Upgrades (9.0 certified)
• Custom Support and Training

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History (cont.)

• Contracted by Lawson directly for
• Management of complex integrations
• Overflow
• Turn around
• Client Base
• 25 million dollar School supply business to an
  international, multi-billion dollar retailer

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Some of our clients
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Why?

• Patches
• Individual/MSP/ESP
• Enhancements or Additions
• Processes
• Technology
• Upgrades
• Cyclic
• Full Upgrades

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What?

• Patches
• Regression
• Affected programs (per patch notes)
• Critical Activities within those programs
• Issue Resolution (why the patch was installed in
  the 1st place)

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What?

• Enhancements or Additions
• Processes
• Added or deleted functionality
• Technology
• Peripheral and/or integrated modules (such as the
  addition of AM would require GL, AP, AC etc.
  testing for the critical activities)

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What?

• Upgrades
• UAT
• Fully integrated testing on affected modules
  including RICE elements (Reports, Interfaces,
  Conversion, Enhancements)
• Stress/Performance
• Transaction and processes executed simultaneously
  to stress software, hardware and the network to
  validate peak performance configurations

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How?

• Testing
• Plan
• Schedule
• Communicate
• Execute
• Migration
• Plan
• Schedule
• Communicate
• Deploy
• Assess

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When?

• Depends?

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Where?

• Anywhere BUT Production

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Who?

• Functional Users
• IT
• Audit

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Any Questions ???