“How do we tame our growing maintenance problem for larger numbers of and higher complexity of product models?“
If you can carve out the time for configurable product specifications, it might help to describe new, changed, or deleted products, write tests against the specifications, and maintain the specifications, models, and test cases. This is similar to how software vendors describe the behavior of their products. Unfortunately this often has limited attraction and ROI to VC customers, because of the extra ongoing maintenance.
Avenue Managing VC with ConfigScan takes a more pragmatic approach today, with solutions such as:
- periodically compare model revisions extracted from SAP, highlight the changes, document and test the change
- automatically create test cases from existing data sources such as order history (successful and rejected orders)
