How To Protect Your Oracle ERP Investment With a Test Automation Strategy

Whether you are still leveraging Oracle on-premise applications, preparing for an Oracle Cloud migration, or already managing your enterprise system in the Oracle Cloud, there is an opportunity to capitalize on your investment by incorporating Test Automation into your Test Strategy.

One of the big challenges with manual testing is getting it to scale as your company grows, especially as you unlock new functionality within the system and expand into new geographies. This is further compounded with the condensed testing periods typically imposed with staying current with the quarterly updates.  Incorporating test automation expedites testing times and helps eliminate quality issues.

Continuous testing improves software performance by testing it at every stage of development and deployment. That is, before it’s deployed into production, after each change has been made, at periodic checkpoints during development, and finally, when the software is ready for deployment.

It allows the management team to identify areas where improvements need to be made before they become critical problems that require costly fixes down the road, or even worse, stoppages in the service they provide!

Incorporating this type of testing into your strategy ensures that problems are caught early rather than later in the process and fixed before they become costly problems impacting customers or business processes.  According to the IBM System Science Institute, bugs are 15 times more costly to fix during testing than during the design phase.

One of the biggest challenges ERP Programme Managers or Enterprise System Directors face is that it takes too much time and effort to constantly test everything efficiently when doing it manually, which takes up their valuable resources. When using an automated testing solution, companies should be able to automate the tests to save time and resources.

It is likely that the number of scripts in your current strategy doesn’t adequately cover all the testing scenarios for your business processes. As a result, this can delay the project’s go-live, which can be costly for companies in the long run.

An already complicated process can becomes even more complex when a company needs to consider new country roll-outs because it’s practically impossible to test each market scenario in an already incomplete test run. This means that your current solution likely has limited capabilities and could be missing important errors leading to potential downtime.

An automated testing strategy lets you create more test scripts faster, with less effort, and resources than manual testing would require. This would also enable your team to perform more comprehensive testing of all aspects of our business processes without any manual intervention.