All About ERP Software and ERP Testing
Tags: erp, testing
Published: 2023-07-27 10:35:36


![Image description](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/axa0jq7hlilncprovlgh.jpg)Often referred to as Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP is software used by companies and organizations to automate their day-to-day activities. Enterprise Resource Planning forms the backbone of multiple small and large-scale industries across the world, as it manages all the core business operations and resources in an integrated manner.

With more organizations integrating their operations through Enterprise Resource Planning software, the need for ERP testing has also grown in the last decade. Despite establishing itself as one of the most profitable markets in the tech industry worldwide, the majority of ERP software fail due to the state of ERP testing currently.

Before we understand the importance of ERP testing, it is important to learn the basics of the ERP.

**What Exactly Is Enterprise Resource Planning**?

When a business is just starting off, chances are it only has a couple of employees working from a single-bedroom apartment. Initially, its functionality is pretty straightforward. Employees work on building a product, launching that product, getting reviews, and re-launching the product according to the suggestions until they find their place in the market and the perfect product-market fit.

When you’re starting off as a small business, you also are tight on budget and don’t have a lot of money to throw around. Therefore, running a business and managing its core processes is comparatively easier than a multinational company that’s been in the market forever.

But once this business picks up and you successfully find the product-market fit, it demands the expansion of all the business-related operations. You need to hire more people to increase your work volume, set up an actual office, build different departments, and expand the nature of your goods and services to increase the customer base.

As your business grows, you cannot expect to manage all the operations as before. That is where the ERP comes to the rescue. It serves as an integrated solution for business owners to expand their avenues by embracing the increasing complexity.

**Benefits of an ERP Software**:

- Manage all the business-related processes such as HR, finance, sales, customer relation, etc.

- Allows different departments to access and share data

- Limited workforce

- Cost-effective

- Minimum errors

**ERP Testing**

ERP testing is a process of determining the functionality of an ERP to ensure that it meets all the necessary demands and is capable of handling large-scale information, transactions, privacy, and workforce, before its full launch into an organization.

Automated ERP testing is the new rage in the tech industry, as it verifies each and every component of an ERP in under half the time taken by manual testing methods. The major reason behind the increased failure of ERP in the last few years is improper testing methods.

Opkey enables business owners to upscale their businesses with just a click. Opkey provides one-stop automation testing solutions to verify if the ERP software delivers on its promises. With over 30,000 in-built test cases, Opkey enables organizations to automate their ERP testing without writing a single code.