Almost a year ago I had the great pleasure of having Mark Oshifeso on the sixth episode of the Integration Podcast. Mark was one of the first users of the Integration Regression Tool (IRT) for SAP PI/PO, now part of the Figaf DevOps Suite. Mark works for a mid-size oil and gas producer based in Texas, and he and his team found out that using the Figaf DevOps Suite made it a lot easier to do upgrades of the SAP PI/PO system. I haven’t had the resources to go deeper into the interview before now, but I do think it is interesting because Mark Oshifeso has some great insights from a customer point of view.
The episode was called How to automate SAP PI/PO testing with Mark Oshifeso from Anadarko Petroleum.
You don’t need to be a scientist
By using the Figaf DevOps Suite, Mark Oshifeso was able to test much faster.
“The tool is crazy easy to use. It is another generation from the usual SAP tools: you list your iFlows, you mark those ones, you press record, and it is basically listening to messages in, for example, production. Once you have done that, you can run your test cases,” Mark says and continues:
“The IRT tool helped us run a test cycle with almost no human interaction, and we are now in the situation that we upgraded our production based on the automated testing, and we are hoping now to move from a 2-3 years cycle to a 6-month cycle.”
Our ambition at Figaf is to create and keep on developing on the tool, so it is easy to use even in companies with many interfaces. Mark Oshifeso agrees that the tool gives a great overview in the process of the testing:
“It is easy to use, you don’t need to be a scientist, and this is really why we were able to introduce the tooling into our landscape of 300 interfaces. Some companies have more than 20.000 interfaces, and if you have a large number of interfaces you need to have an easy tool. The tool helped us automate the test. The tool is really intuitive.”
“With the IRT tool there is a very fast learning curve, and if another person takes over, you have people quickly getting familiar with this tool. There is no science, which is also why we chose it.”
There is no waiting anymore
What we want at Figaf is to give people a chance to optimize their workflow by using automated testing. And fortunately Mark Oshifeso thinks, that we have achieved this:
“The tool itself is very speedy to use. There is no waiting anymore. The tool is really great to help facilitate, save money and especially save so many hours. The Figaf tool is the most holistic approach, and easy to get everything set up, I don’t see anyone else so far on the market,” he says and finishes:
“I can really recommend this tool, if you want to go to automated testing, this is one of the tools I would really look into.”
Here you can find the podcast: How to automate SAP PI/PO testing with Mark Oshifeso from Anadarko Petroleum.
As you can see Mark Oshifeso had great success using the tool. Since the interview we have made many improvements, and the tool is now part of the Figaf DevOps Suite, so it should be even easier to use today.
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