Prioritization and ranking of ERP testing components

Software Testing is one of the most important activities but more often than not attracts less attention than it deserves in software development and implementation. It often takes twenty to sometimes even more than fifty percent of the total software development time. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems provide synergy by integrating all operations of an enterprise. So implementation of ERP systems need even more rigorous testing than that employed in stand-alone software development. Software testing is a well-researched area but software testing as employed on ERP systems albeit is droughted with respect to research. This research paper is an extension of the patent by Kapur et al.[8] that identified the ERP Testing Components to measure ERP testing efficiency. Here, the ERP Testing Components have been accumulated and categorized under five heads. Thereafter, these testing components have been prioritized and ranked with the help of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), as given by Saaty [17].