What You Should Look For In An Oracle Testing Platform
Tags: oracle, testing
Published: 2023-02-06 10:49:26

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Due to benefits like real-time data access, scalability, and continuous innovation, fast-growing enterprises are rapidly adopting Oracle Cloud applications to manage their business processes. As Oracle Cloud apps are built from the ground up and support continuous improvement/ innovation, customers are perplexed as to how to accelerate their release cycles and enable continuous delivery. The answer to this question is automated Oracle testing. 

**Why is Oracle Cloud manual testing a challenge**?

**Oracle Cloud quarterly updates**: Oracle works on the principle of continuous innovation and rolls out quarterly updates. It means that customers will receive new features and functionalities 4 times a year. Even though you’re running Oracle Cloud apps with basic configuration, you cannot simply trust the updates without testing as they can negatively impact system performance or user experience. Each Oracle Cloud quarterly update requires at least 2 rounds of testing – one in test environment and another in production. Manual testing Oracle apps 8 times a year can be frustrating and labor-intensive.

**High degree of customization**: Oracle Cloud apps offer a high degree of customizability. It means that organizations can tailor each application as per their unique business needs. Whenever patches, updates or configuration changes are applied to Oracle applications, testing is imperative to ensure that each Oracle Fusion application is bug-free. However, doing this manually can expose your business to serious risks due to inadequate coverage. 

**Ability to integrate**: Oracle Cloud apps are hardly used as standalone applications. It means that they are integrated with productivity apps like Workday, Microsoft Office 365, etc to improve productivity. However, whenever updates are rolled out or patches are updated, there’s a possibility that they can impact existing integrations. Having resources with skills and knowledge to test integrations manually can be a challenging task.

**How do automated Oracle testing platforms help**? 

Organizations that have embraced Oracle Cloud apps but still using manual testing approaches need to understand that manual testing isn’t a viable solution to support digital transformation. This is also evident from the Gitlab DevSecOps 2021 Survey that considered manual testing the biggest hurdle to achieving a successful DevOps process. Furthermore, manual testing cannot provide you the required speed and coverage that you’ve been looking for.

However, automated Oracle testing platforms ensure that all relevant test cases are executed seamlessly for Oracle Cloud update certification, identification of bugs in the existing code, and verifying all integrated systems work as expected. Some of the advantages of using Oracle testing tools include

- quick execution of test cases, continuous testing and reusability of test assets.

- reduction in manual efforts, thus improving productivity, in turn reduction in testing costs.

- since automated tests can be reused, it minimizes testing efforts in future.

- security and compliance as you can certify Oracle Cloud updates within time frames.

Another use-case where you need automated testing is Oracle migration to cloud. Since Oracle has ended premier support for EBS, customers are moving to Oracle Cloud. Migration from EBS to Oracle Cloud is no more a walk in the park. To ensure that your Oracle Cloud apps are configured properly, your data is secure, and your apps are working as expected post migration, you need a test focused Oracle Cloud migration strategy with pre-migration, in-migration, and post-migration testing scenarios in consideration. 

As multiple rounds of regression testing are required during Oracle migration to Cloud, you need a test automation platform that reduces exhaustive involvement of business users as well as migration risks. 

**Conclusion**

As you’re now aware that the Oracle testing platform is critical for your digital transformation, you need to understand that the right test automation is imperative. A zero-code test automation platform that can easily be used by business users and support risk-based coverage. A platform with cross-platform testing capabilities and library of pre-built accelerators.