Speed without compromise: Functional testing that keeps pace with SAP

SAP® supports some of the most critical business processes in the world. Whether your organization is running SAP S/4HANA®, moving to the cloud, or managing a complex hybrid landscape, the cost of a failed release is immediate. Downtime, data errors, and regression defects in SAP systems don’t stay contained. They ripple across the organization, and often beyond it. 

OpenText™ functional testing solutions were built for this kind of environment. These solutions deliver deep integration across the full SAP technology stack, from the desktop GUI to modern Fiori apps, so your teams can release with confidence at every stage of your SAP journey. 

The SAP testing challenge

SAP technology is powerful, but it is also proprietary. User interfaces including SAP GUI®, SAPUI5®, and SAP Fiori® carry proprietary attributes that require specific technology to test effectively. Communications protocols between SAP and other systems, including OData®, IDoc®, and RFC, are not supported by all testing tools. 

Generic testing tools hit a wall quickly. OpenText functional testing tools were built to clear those hurdles. 

Validate every layer of your SAP stack 

OpenText™ Functional Testing 

This is the flagship solution for SAP test automation. The SAP solutions add-ins let you test user-interface objects in SAP GUI for Windows applications and in web-based SAP applications, enabling you to create and run tests and business components, check properties, add checkpoints, retrieve output values, and parameterize values across your SAP environment. 

For SAP teams, that translates directly to business value: 

• Automate testing so teams spend less time on manual validation and more time delivering value 
• Verify continuously that core SAP workflows perform as expected, reducing costly disruptions 
• Catch issues early, before they reach end users and become expensive fixes 
• Support both developer-driven and tester-driven workflows, keeping SAP projects moving without handoff delays 
• Reuse test assets across modules and environments without growing your team 

AI-powered resilience

AI-based machine learning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) based advanced object recognition for web, mobile, and SAP GUI boost test coverage. More importantly, AI Object Detection-based tests are more resilient because they rely on visual characteristics and not object properties. When SAP releases update the UI, your AI Object Detection tests keep running without breakage. That means fewer maintenance cycles, less rework, and more time focused on validating what matters to the business. 

Integration with SAP Solution Manager

You can store GUI tests in SAP Solution Manager and use Solution Manager with OpenText Functional Testing (formerly UFT One) to run quality tests across complex, multi-platform, highly integrated, and proprietary enterprise environments. The integration lets you create, store, edit, and execute scripts from within SAP Solution Manager, and pass test results and bidirectional parameters between the two solutions to keep everything in sync. 

Testers work inside the SAP governance framework they already know, backed by the full automation capabilities of OpenText Functional Testing to create and maintain the automation tests, while SolMan handles the management layer. No need to switch between systems or maintain separate records. 

OpenText™ Functional Testing for Developers

Built for continuous integration and continuous testing, OpenText Functional Testing for Developers (formerly UFT Developer) is a lightweight solution that enables developers and quality assurance to collaborate in agile teams. It supports both SAP GUI and SAPUI5 applications, giving teams the flexibility to automate across the full range of SAP interfaces using Java or C#, from classic desktop transactions to modern Fiori-based front ends. For organizations running DevOps delivery cycles around SAP development, it provides the right level of automation capability without the overhead of a full test automation platform. 

OpenText™ Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web 

OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web (formerly UFT Digital Lab) provides an end-to-end quality lab of real devices, emulators, and cloud browsers. For SAP teams, that means full cross-device and cross-browser coverage of SAP Fiori applications, including hybrid and pure web deployments, without the cost and complexity of maintaining physical device infrastructure. By testing across a diverse device and browser matrix, teams can improve confidence in the consistency and quality of the SAP Fiori user experience. 

OpenText™ Core Software Delivery Platform Functional Testing 

For teams working with model-based testing, this solution converts business process models into paths and automated tests, uses AI codeless testing, and aligns test coverage directly to business requirements. It carries extensive SAP support across SAP GUI, SAP Fiori/SAPUI5, and S/4HANA. 

Through MF Connect Core middleware, the solution integrates with SAP Signavio Process Manager to synchronize Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) process models directly into model-based test automation, closing the gap between business process design and executable test coverage. Teams using SAP Cloud ALM as their test orchestration layer can also run OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform Functional Testing within SAP Cloud ALM, unifying SAP and non-SAP testing in a single execution environment. 

The broader ecosystem

Nothing falls through the gap between your SAP toolchain and your broader quality infrastructure. When defects are logged in OpenText Application Quality Management (formerly ALM), they automatically synchronize with the SAP Solution Manager IT Service Management (ITSM) module, keeping both systems current without manual updates. You get full traceability from business process changes through test execution and defect resolution. 

This integration is enabled through the SAP Solution Manager connector for MF Connect Core, available on the OpenText Marketplace.  

Why it matters for SAP transformations 

Whether your organization is in the middle of an S/4HANA migration, consolidating onto RISE with SAP, or continuously releasing updates to SAP-connected applications, OpenText functional testing solutions cover the full lifecycle: 

• Reduces risk by validating SAP business processes end to end before every release 
• Scales testing across distributed teams without requiring SAP specialists at every node 
• Accelerates automation with AI object recognition that keeps pace with SAP UI changes 
• Connects SAP and non-SAP delivery through shared test management, defect tracking, and process traceability 
• Supports on-premises, private cloud, and RISE with SAP deployment models 

SAP transformations are boardroom-level decisions. The quality of those transformations should not depend on manual testing or fragile scripts. OpenText functional testing solutions give your teams the coverage, confidence, and velocity to go live and stay live.

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