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Function documentationScope and Effort Analyzer

 

With the Scope and Effort Analyzer, you can analyze the scope of activities and effort before you start the physical deployment of Enhancement Packages (EHP) and Support Packages (SP).

The Scope and Effort Analyzer provides you with a comprehensive analysis with minimal customer input. All analysis steps of the Scope and Effort Analyzer are performed in the background after you have entered the necessary input data. Some of the most important and time consuming analysis activities before a physical deployment of EHPs and SPs are:

  • Identification of affected custom code and modifications and required adjustments in the customer system, since an EHP or SP comes with updates of the SAP standard objects

  • Identification of required test scope, test planning, creation of missing test cases and execution of manual tests

With the Scope and Effort Analyzer analysis results, you can determine the change impact on custom code and modifications and estimate the rework effort for custom code and modifications as well as the effort for regression tests of impacted business processes.

Prerequisites

Authorizations

For working with the Scope and Effort Analyzer, a user needs in the authorization object SM_SEA the authorization for the following activities:

  • Start application in display mode

  • Create an analysis

  • Change an analysis

  • Delete an analysis

Roles

To use the functionality use either of the two composite roles relevant for Scope and Effort Analyzer end-users:

  • SAP_SEA_ALL_COMP

    Scope and Effort Analyzer Composite Role (Full Authorization)

  • SAP_SEA_DIS_COMP

    Scope and Effort Analyzer Composite Role (Display Authorization)

See also the SAP Solution Manager Security Guide on SAP Service Marketplace, at Start of the navigation path http://service.sap.com/instguidesInformation published on SAP site Next navigation step SAP Components Next navigation step SAP Solution Manager Next navigation step <current release> End of the navigation path.

Features

On the Scope and Effort Analyzer start screen, you can do the following:

  • View existing analyses

  • Create a new analysis

  • Delete an analysis

  • Export view of existing analysis

  • View analysis processing status

  • View analysis results

Average Values allows you to change the default values taken for the calculation of development and test efforts.

Note Note

In the Scope and Effort Analyzer application, there is for every step and every screen a comprehensive help text available.

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Activities

You can start the Scope and Effort Analyzer in the following work centers: