Oracle Testing Tools: Types, Challenges, and Solution
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Published: 2023-03-07 06:50:05

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There is no doubt that test automation tools are designed to dramatically reduce cost, reduce manual labor, and shorten the testing time. And certainly, using an automated tool for your Oracle application testing is a logical and valuable course of action. But that cannot be the complete picture.

Although its benefits are incremental, businesses using Oracle can leverage the full potential of test automation only if they employ the best approach for testing. However, this approach particularly requires the development of an efficient and robust testing framework capable of enabling efficient test case creation, execution, and reporting, all while reducing the impact of maintenance when the Oracle application undergoes frequent changes due to releases or cloud updates.

In this blog, let’s take a closer look at the limitations of the existing Oracle testing tools, and the best-suited framework that can improve test accuracy, reduce test maintenance costs, and lower the risks involved in Oracle testing.

One-third of the cost of a package implementation is spent on software quality issues, and testing accounts for 40% of maintenance efforts. Thomas Murphy, Gartner Analyst

**Oracle testing tools are developed considering the following frameworks**

Oracle test automation frameworks can take many different forms:

**Script-based Test Automation Framework**– Script-based test automation framework rigidly follows script recipes for Oracle Cloud testing. Here testers and developers write and maintain the automation scripts, it will also take time away from their original task consequently, quality gets compromised.

**Scriptless Test Automation Framework**:- The scriptless test automation framework allows business users and testers to create and automate test cases without worrying about the coding. It helps to reduce the time required to understand the code significantly reducing the time and effort in testing.

**Why do you need an Oracle testing tool**?

- Oracle testing tools should follow a set of guidelines for creating and designing automated test cases for Oracle applications.

- Provides a structured development methodology to ensure design consistency across multiple test scripts to reduce reliance on individual test cases.

- Test automation tools for Oracle improve efficiency by designing and developing automated test scripts by enabling the reuse of components or code, hence reducing the maintenance burden.

- The test automation tools dynamically refine the scope of testing based on changes in testing strategy due to migration, releases/updates of the Oracle applications.

- Oracle cloud migration tools ensure seamless and uninterrupted on-prem to cloud migration with minimal manpower required.

**Risk-based continuous test automation tools**

Oracle supports constantly evolving business requirements by leveraging the cloud to embrace the continuous delivery of new features and enhancements. So they need the right validation framework to support these innovations. And the right validation tool is a risk-based continuous test automation tool. Enterprises lacking it might struggle to achieve the required levels of testing speed and accuracy needed to cope up with the rapidly changing business requirements. 

Oracle cloud migration tools are no longer a nice-to-have, but a requirement to survive and thrive. It protects enterprises from unwanted business disruptions that can cost revenue, profits, or reputations. Leveraging it, IT managers/ business teams can find out how an Oracle Cloud update or new functionality has impacted existing business processes and configurations in real-time during short sprint cycles.  In fact, Oracle cloud migration tools help enterprises to achieve the desired speed, accuracy, efficiency, and coverage that they have been looking for to accelerate the release and patch cycle and reap the real benefits of automation.