All You Need to Know About Shift-Left Testing Strategy for Oracle EBS
Tags: oracle, ebs, testing
Published: 2023-05-09 09:23:25

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HubSpot says that about 70% of businesses prefer cloud-based ERP solutions because of the cost, how easy they are to set up, and how little IT support they need. This pattern also applies to Oracle EBS clients, especially since Oracle is about to stop giving EBS users premium support. Because of this, a huge number of businesses switched from Oracle EBS to Oracle Cloud.

Even though ERP migration is known to be hard, more and more companies are moving to the cloud. The Oracle EBS testing says that more than 80% of migration projects end up being late or going over budget. 

Leftward Shift: Putting Things Through Tests Over and Over –
“Shift-left testing” (moving tests to earlier stages of a migration project) helps businesses avoid cost overruns and project delays by finding and fixing problems as early as possible in the development cycle. The Shift-left development method puts testing at the center of the process from the start.

In the typical waterfall Dev method, testing is not an important part of the process. Instead, it is an afterthought. So, the earlier in the process defects are found, the more damage they could cause and the harder, longer, and more expensive it will be to fix them.

**Oracle Cloud Migrations for E-Business Suite Shift-Left Testing Methods**

Using a Shift-left testing strategy could reduce the risk of moving to Oracle Cloud by a large amount. With this method, companies test before the move, during the move, and after the move. This lets them find problems and fix them before they have a big effect. So, this lowers risk by stopping small problems from getting worse and worse until they cause big disasters.

Shift-left testing can be used in a lot of different ways during an Oracle migration –

**Automating your test procedures will help you get the most out of your current Oracle EBS installation** –

Test automation should be added to your EBS upgrades as soon as possible. Early testing on your EBS instance helps you get more coverage as your technology stack matures around your digital core transition. This makes iterative testing more efficient and less work-intensive over time.

**Break up your move into manageable pieces** –

Best practices say that moving to Oracle Cloud should be done in stages. This method lets problems be found early and helps make sure that working modules keep working as expected during the transfer. Also, by breaking the migration into stages, your team will have smaller, more reasonable deadlines to meet, which usually helps the migration stay on schedule.

**Stop doing what you’re doing and look at how your business is run right now** –

Since you’ll have to figure out how to move your current EBS processes to Oracle Cloud, this change will give you a unique chance to look at how well your business is running right now. In the past, businesses had to pay for expensive consultants and hold long meetings with company employees to find out how they did business now and come up with new ideas. As you might expect, this plan didn’t work very well because it depended a lot on guessing.

Using a test automation tool and process and configuration mining as part of a Shift-left testing strategy can speed up and simplify this process of finding out what needs to be done. It could give you a clear picture of the real processes that workers use, which would help you plan for the move to Oracle Cloud. Inefficiencies in the way work are done are also brought to light.

**Conclusion** –

The testing process can’t just be about computers and technology. Thanks to your Oracle test automation platform like Opkey, business users who use Oracle often should be able to take part in the testing process. After all, they know the most about how to run their own business.