To meet the need of today’s agile enterprises, Oracle has developed its cloud infrastructure that ensures faster and more predictable performance, low operating costs and better security, improved scalability, and enhanced compatibility for enterprise workloads. With benefits also comes responsibility. In the case of Oracle Cloud Apps, the biggest challenge is to test applications for quarterly updates.
As its commitment to delivering innovation, Oracle rolls out quarterly updates. It means that customers will get new functionalities and features every three months. However, Oracle cloud updates have the potential to disrupt existing business processes, workflows, and integrations. In order to understand the impact of new features and functionalities on existing business processes, testing is important.
However, enterprises that have migrated to Oracle Cloud infrastructure are struggling to keep pace with the frequency and breadth of updates. The window for Oracle Cloud testing is just two weeks. With a traditional testing approach, enterprises cannot achieve the required speed and coverage to keep pace with Oracle Cloud updates.
To address the challenges of Oracle Cloud quarterly testing, enterprises need next-generation test automation and continuous testing processes. “Continuous Testing” is all about testing early, comprehensively, and often at every stage of the development life cycle. It ensures that feedback of any bugs or risks associated with the product release is quickly given to the development team with the help of automation. Let’s discuss some of the benefits of continuous test automation.
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Accelerate release cycle –
Since continuous testing cannot be achieved without automation, enterprises need to bring in some form of automation. Test automation helps accelerate Oracle Cloud release cycles by quickly executing test cases based on the highlighted risks. Quick feedback on the business risks enables IT, managers to make informed decisions on whether to go live with the updates or if there is still some scope of optimization.
Improved test coverage –
In traditional testing approaches, test cases are written based on guesses or experiences of the testers on how end users are interacting with the application. However, continuous testing involves automation in which test cases are authored by AI-powered test automation tools that consider real-time operational data of users to write test cases. There is zero possibility of skipping or forgetting any test to execute when you use a risk-based continuous test automation platform for Oracle Cloud testing. In case, of test gaps, the test automation framework automatically records user sessions and adds new test libraries.
Reduce the cost of defects –
Continuous testing supports continuous innovation. Continuous testing helps enterprises to embrace Oracle cloud updates quickly by testing early and comprehensively.
With the help of change impact assessment and risk-based continuous testing, enterprises can prevent of leakage of bugs into the production environment that might have a devastating impact on business continuity.
More efficient testing –
Unlike the manual approach, which involves testing everything, here risk-based approach is used by automation tools. Leveraging risk-based assessment, automation tools offer wide coverage for business risks as compared to traditional (and time-intensive) manual testing. Redundant tests are removed, saving valuable time, while missing test cases are included based on the highlighted risks.
Summing up
Enterprises that want to keep pace with Oracle Cloud quarterly updates need to transform their testing process. This can only be achieved with the right testing approach and test automation tool. By supporting overall testing processes (test orchestration, test authoring, test recommendations, and self-healing of scripts), a continuous test automation platform for Oracle ensures continuous innovation while keeping business disruption at bay.
