BW testing strategy

Hi All,
I have requirement to create a BW testing strategy for any CRs received.
It has to cover general step by step procedure to be followed to test and document all the tests conducted on changes made in BW.
As a QA team lead, I have to prepare this plan to be followed further.
We work on BW 3.5 and use Mercury Quality center.
I am struck with how and where to start this.Please provide me with any test templates or general guidelines for testing.
Your help would be appreciated and rewarded with points.
Thanks in advance
Pavan

Hi,
We have not used any tool like Mercury Quality center for testing. In our case we created some test scripts and based on that we proceeded further.
I will give you some standard tests we have to do in Quality.
All the testing is done in quality before moving into Prod.
Testing like Integration and unit testing are done in quality.
You need to test if the extractions are working fine, data is getting loaded into targets, post load activities like activation, rollup, compression etc are successfull etc.
We test the PC chains also in Quality.
We schedule / trigger the chains and monitor them. We ensure that all the process types are happening successfully.
One major area we concentrate on is to identify dependcies in the chain. This will ensure less erros and also reduce chain timings by a great extend. Dependencies should be kept to a minimum whereever possible.
Also in cases where we use events/third party shceduling tools to trigger BW chains we check that out.
Executing reports to check the definitions are correct.
The volume of data will be lesser in Quality compared to Prod.
Also activities like Change runs,Deletion , Selective deletion etc are done.
Almost all the activites in Prod are done in Quality.
Refer.
Re: Quality System
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Integration Testing
http://www.sap-img.com/general/role-of-sap-consultant-in-testing.htm
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e5d8d390-0201-0010-e284-e418e3f0e150
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BI 7.0 Testcases
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Hope this helps.
Thanks,
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Hello Neil,
Well, why don't you use different repositories for testing your
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