https://rufouss.com/insights.html SAP Quality Engineering, written from experience. Practical thinking on SAP testing, S/4HANA transformation, automation and assurance. en-gb Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://rufouss.com/five-questions-before-sap-go-live https://rufouss.com/five-questions-before-sap-go-live Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Executive Assurance Traceability, real business coverage, production-like data, a rehearsed cutover and the evidence behind the decision — five questions that tell you more than a pass rate. https://rufouss.com/what-to-retest-after-an-sap-upgrade https://rufouss.com/what-to-retest-after-an-sap-upgrade Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT S/4HANA Nine areas worth validating after an SAP upgrade, what SAP’s own tools do and do not tell you about each, and how change impact should decide the depth of regression. https://rufouss.com/evidence-before-sap-go-live https://rufouss.com/evidence-before-sap-go-live Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Executive Assurance Leadership needs visibility into business-process coverage, material defects, unresolved dependencies and the evidence behind readiness — not another status colour. https://rufouss.com/s4hana-upgrade-is-a-business-process-test https://rufouss.com/s4hana-upgrade-is-a-business-process-test Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT S/4HANA Custom code, business data, interfaces and process behaviour all need attention when the underlying ERP changes beneath them. https://rufouss.com/requirement-to-business-process-coverage https://rufouss.com/requirement-to-business-process-coverage Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT SAP Testing Meaningful coverage traces what the business expects through processes, variants, scenarios and evidence — not through a total. https://rufouss.com/what-to-automate-first-in-sap https://rufouss.com/what-to-automate-first-in-sap Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Automation Sustainable automation starts with stable, repeatable and business-critical processes rather than automation-volume targets. https://rufouss.com/five-quality-signals-steering-committee https://rufouss.com/five-quality-signals-steering-committee Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Executive Assurance Five signals that tell a steering committee something a completion percentage cannot. https://rufouss.com/regression-in-the-s4hana-release-rhythm https://rufouss.com/regression-in-the-s4hana-release-rhythm Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT S/4HANA SAP ships on its own schedule. A regression suite that is rebuilt for each release will always be behind it. https://rufouss.com/what-testing-protects-in-ecc-conversion https://rufouss.com/what-testing-protects-in-ecc-conversion Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT S/4HANA Six things change underneath the business during a conversion. A test strategy is a set of decisions about which of them to protect first. https://rufouss.com/economics-of-a-maintained-regression-suite https://rufouss.com/economics-of-a-maintained-regression-suite Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Automation Automation does not pay back on the day it is built. It pays back on the fourth, fifth and tenth time it runs. https://rufouss.com/one-process-six-places-quality-disappears https://rufouss.com/one-process-six-places-quality-disappears Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Field Notes Source-to-pay, followed all the way through, and the six points at which coverage quietly goes missing. https://rufouss.com/where-ai-helps-sap-test-design https://rufouss.com/where-ai-helps-sap-test-design Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Automation Four places AI earns its keep in SAP test design, and the judgement it does not replace. https://rufouss.com/testing-the-handoffs https://rufouss.com/testing-the-handoffs Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Field Notes Every boundary a process crosses is owned by somebody, and the gaps sit between the owners rather than inside them. https://rufouss.com/what-ready-means-in-sap https://rufouss.com/what-ready-means-in-sap Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Executive Assurance Readiness is a judgement about business capability, made by named people, on evidence. It is not a number that arrives from a tool.