Questions:

1. On an annual basis, how often

does your company release
production changes for the
following release types:
a. Production Support (emergency)
b. Minor Releases (does not
requiring end-to-end business
process testing)
c. Enterprise Release (requires endto-end business process testing)
Additional Comments:
2. What is your companys SAP
instance strategy?
a. Global (single instance used by
all geographies, lines-of-business
[LOB])
b. Multi-Instance (separate by
geography or LOB)
Additional Comments:
3. What is your companys preproduction environment tier
structure?
a. Single path to production by
instance and release type
(production support, minor
release, major release)
b. Multiple paths to production by
instance and release type.
c. Multiple, but shared, paths to
production (shared by release
type, example production support
and minor releases share preproduction environments)
Additional Comments:
4. What level of automated SAP
quality testing does your
company do?
a. None (manual testing only)
b. Limited (combination of manual
and automated testing)
c. Full (automated end-to-end
business transaction testing)

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5. What is your companys Release
Testing Strategy?
a. QM executes functional quality
and integration testing; business
team(s) participates in integration
testing: and executes UAT and
regression testing independently.
b. QM executes functional,
integration and regression
testing; business team(s) execute
UAT for new or changed
functionality only
c. QM executes all testing; business
team(s) reviews and approves
test results for new or changed
functionality only.
Additional Comments:
6. On average, what is the duration
(time-to-market) for your SAP
system development life cycle
(idea to production deployment)
for:
a. Minor Releases (does not
requiring end-to-end business
process testing)
b. Enterprise Release (requires endto-end business process testing)
Additional Comments:

(Yes / No)

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# of
Months or
fractional
Months

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