
As businesses become more app-driven, there is increasing emphasis on testing packaged applications like SAP to ensure all customizations and extensions are not impacted by new software releases and/or updates. In the case of SAP customizations, business process testing needs to start with vendor software standard capabilities and then extend to cover customizations like SOX compliance.Large organizations always have a number of projects running in parallel with mixed methodologies, some following waterfall, and others agile. Each project deliverable needs to meet specific quality gates that are defined at every stage. For pharmaceutical companies, internal and external regulators place an obligation on the company to be able to demonstrate, with evidence, that all regulatory requirements, including GxP requirements and any SOX regulations, have been met. Companies must: