Understanding why Oracle test automation has become a necessity for business agility

Enterprises across the globe are embracing “cloud” to keep pace with rapidly changing market dynamics, competitive pressure, and dynamic customer requirements. Cloud ERP solutions future-proof your business with centralized and real-time access to data, scalability, flexibility, business agility, actionable insights and continuous innovation. Among some of the prominent cloud ERP vendors, Oracle Cloud has gained a significant name in the global market. Oracle works on the principle of “continuous innovation” and rolls out quarterly updates.

Oracle’s quarterly updates come up with new features and functionalities that allow you to manage your business more efficiently and effectively. Undoubtedly, the benefits of Oracle’s quarterly updates are countless, they come at a cost. Every quarter, regression testing is recommended to ensure that new updates don’t affect your existing workflows, business processes, customizations, and critical integrations.

Prior to making those features go-live in production, you need to understand the impact of new features and functionalities on current processes and procedures. For this, you need Oracle testing across custom reports, critical workflow approvals, and integrations with other apps.

To address the inefficiencies of manual testing and to achieve speed, you need to bring in test automation. With Oracle test automation, you can easily keep pace with the frequency and breadth of Oracle quarterly release cycle. Some of the benefits of Oracle test automation are

Speed: Test automation speeds up testing cycles by automating some of the repetitive but necessary steps used in regression testing. This allows you to better handle frequent updates and roll out new features/ functionalities quickly.

Risk Coverage: Oracle test automation tools like Opkey offer risk based coverage to ensure business continuity. Leveraging AI and ML, these tools provide you smart regression suites based on the impacted areas so that mission critical business processes should be tested first. Tools collect information to identify tests that frequently fail and offer recommendations to optimize test execution effort.

Reduce Cost: According to IBM, the cost of fixing defects in production is 15X as compared to fixing in the design phase. Test automation helps you incorporate continuous testing. It means that you can detect defects early, preventing them from moving into production, saving dollars for your company.

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