Oracle 20A Cloud update is here. Is your test automation ready?

Published: 2021-03-01 11:48:09

<a href="https://www.opkey.com">OpKey's</a> Automation Scripts now Certified With Oracle Cloud 20A Upgrade

<B>Scope:</B>

This document gives an overview of Automation impacted modules and functionalities, functional updates and issues related to 20A <a href="https://www.opkey.com/Oracle-EBS-Automation"> Oracle Cloud </a> HCM module. The document also provides test guidance to our customers to have critical runs in place for a quick sanity.

<B>Overview of Automation Impact:</B>

Provides all automation changes on the application related to Oracle HCM Cloud update 20A. It contains information on property change labels, Dom structure changes and object property changes on primary labels impacting critical test artifacts. Tools using Selenium would break due to significant changes in object properties whereas @OpKey we use ‘Visual Identification’ proprietary technology and hence this becomes a ZERO IMPACT scenario for us.

<B>Details of impacted changes can be seen below:</B>

<B>Receivables</B>

<B>Integration Support for Bank related Objects</B>

You can now create and maintain your bank and bank branches using integration keys. This allows you to update the attributes that are usually used to identify the bank or branch to be updated, such as bank and branch name and number.

<B>These keys are more reliable as compared to the User Keys which are subjected to change at times.</B>

<B>Expenses</B>

Create Expense Item>Itemized table now appears at the frontend which was under ‘Itemize’ option in previous instance, table inaccessible due to Dom structure change

<B>Purchasing</B>

Conversion rates aren’t available when PO Distributions are created using REST impacting integrations

Transaction Console takes significantly longer time to load
First Party Tax Registration number is blank when using PO web service

<B>Core HR</B>

(A) New Business Objects Supported
Data loading capabilities are extended to support ‘Question’, ‘Questionnaire template’ and ‘Questionnaire’
(B) Document Records REST API Doesn’t Validate Mismatch
When using REST API to load document record attachments, if there’s a mismatch between the attachment type and content this isn’t validated.

Under ‘Family Emergency Contacts’ >Selection and Addition of Co-worker> ‘Selection criteria’ inaccessible due to Dom structure change

<B>Payroll</B>

‘Create’ button on ‘Create Element Entries’ inaccessible due to Dom structure change

<B>Benefits</B>

Search employee under ‘Enrollment’ inaccessible due to Dom structure change

<B>Absence Management</B>

‘Load Disbursement HDL’ is now taking too long to respond and then inaccessible due to loading extensively increased.

<B>Helpdesk</B>

Knowledge>Authoring>Create Article > ‘Action’ dropdown inaccessible due to Dom structure change
Helpdesk>HR Service Requests > Message box inaccessible due to Dom structure change

<B>Compensation</B>

Compensation > Manage Salary > ‘Actions’ dropdown button inaccessible due to Dom structure change

<B>Test Guidance from OpKey</B>

Before each Upgrade is applied to customer environments, we run a comprehensive series of automated tests to validate the features being released against various levels of the environment. These tests validate:

-> The health of the build in a simulated existing customer environment
-> Successful execution of tests in a simulated new customer environment
-> End-to-end business process flows
-> Primary use case scenarios
-> Alternate use case scenarios
-> Additional scenarios derived from design specifications
Setup/Configuration Flows Across ERP/HCM Module
Financials Set up and configuration
Procurement set up and configuration
Project Financial Management configuration and set up
Approvals configuration
Workforce structure setup
Payroll definitions and elements
Benefits plans and programs
Absence setup and configuration
Workforce compensation worksheet configuration
Performance documents
Competencies and measurements
Talent review templates and meetings
Time and Labor groups and rules templates
Personalizations/Customizations
Security data role generation
P1 End-to-End Business Flows Across Financials & Procurement Module
Procure to Pay Cycle
Order to Cash Cycle
Inter-company Transactions
Mass Addition Process
Create Budget
Create Project from Project/Template
Process Approval E2E Workflow
Generation of Change Order
Critical Business Flows Across HCM Module

<B>Hire flow examples:</B>
a. Create pending worker
b. Create a nonworker
c. Rehire a person
Global Transfer
Process Life Event
Promote a worker
Termination
Conduct Comp Cycle
Run Payroll
Person Takes Absence
Approvals and notifications
Security Setup

At OpKey, we certify our automation scripts to Oracle Cloud’s new update in just 3 days and help our customers get their business processes validated within that time frame. The process of updating scripts is extremely swift and painless where customers get their suite updated in technical and functional categories in no time.

Author
Dimpy Sharma