Enterprises that have been using on-premise Oracle EBS (E-Business Suite) are looking to migrate to Oracle Cloud due to high scalability, flexibility, availability, performance, low operating costs, and continuous innovation. Oracle provides its customers with the opportunity to migrate to Oracle Cloud without requiring significant configuration, integration, or business process changes. Although the process seems to be very straightforward and streamlined, yet business leaders and project managers need to understand that there are several bottlenecks that need to be addressed for successful Oracle Cloud migration and post migration.
In this article, we’ll discuss these bottlenecks and provide you the pathway for Oracle Cloud Migration.
Use-case 1: Oracle Cloud Migration
As companies have begun to adopt cloud solutions like Oracle Cloud, the very first question that comes to mind of business leaders is “how can they ensure that their Oracle Cloud migration remains within timelines and budget?” They also need to ponder “how their business processes and workflows operate in the Oracle Cloud?”.
To ensure that business continuity remains intact and EBS to Oracle Cloud migration remain successful, you need to bring in a test focussed migration strategy. A series of pre-migration, in-migration, and post-migration testing scenarios will ensure that your corporate data is secure in the cloud, cloud environment is properly configured, and your applications are performing as required after the migration.
The responsibility of successful migration lies with business users, functional consultants and not developers. So, business users need to be proactively involved in testing to ensure business continuity. However, EBS to Oracle Cloud migration requires multiple test cycles. If performed manually, testing can be time consuming and become frustrating for business users and leaders who also have to perform other critical tasks.
Thus, you need Oracle test automation to alleviate burden from business users and to keep projects within timelines.
Use-case 2: Post Migration – Oracle Cloud Updates
Oracle rolls out quarterly updates. Enterprises that are looking to embrace Oracle Cloud need to understand that they’ll get new functionality every three months to efficiently manage their business. However, these updates can negatively impact system performance or user experience, making testing necessary with every update. You should validate critical reports, key workflow approvals, and critical integrations with other applications. As updates are applied first in non-production environments and two weeks later in the production, you need at least two rounds of testing with each update. Manually executing regression testing 8 times a year can be very challenging.
To keep pace with Oracle Cloud quarterly updates, you need to bring in test automation.
Oracle Test Automation Challenges
Incorporating Oracle test automation is a perfect solution to above mentioned problems. However, implementing test automation is itself challenging when it comes to Oracle.
- Oracle is a complex application that features dynamic elements. Since dynamic elements don’t have fixed attributes like Name, Class, Xpath, CSS, etc. It is really challenging to automate Oracle testing with a simple “record and playback” engine. If you opt for code-based frameworks like Selenium, it would be very difficult to hard code elements. A single test scenario would lead to hours of coding.
- The testing stability is often impacted by dynamic elements. Whenever changes are made directly to the app due to new screens, buttons, user flows or user inputs, it leads to test failures, flaky/ brittle tests. Some test automation frameworks use static test scripts that cannot automatically adapt and overcome these changes. Such test automation platforms act more as a liability than as an asset as test engineers have to spend significant time in maintaining test automation scripts.
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- Oracle Cloud can be extended by integrating it with other enterprise applications such as CRM, Office 365, etc. Often, test automation platforms can only cover the specified Oracle app and not the entire ecosystem, leading to inadequate test coverage.
Opkey: Addressing Complexities related to Oracle Test Automation
Opkey is the industry’s leading Oracle test automation platform that supports you during Oracle Cloud migration as well as Oracle Quarterly Updates. Opkey is powered with AI-driven test mining and process discovery techniques.
Test mining mines your existing test cases to perform test gap analysis and recommend tests based on your critical processes so that important areas should be tested first.
Automatic process discovery eliminates the need of manual discovery and creates an identical twin of your existing applications so that seamless transition to cloud can be facilitated.
To address the challenges of dynamic elements and flaky test scripts, Opkey uses AI-powered self-healing technology. Whenever there is a change in the object property (Name, ID, Xpath, CSS etc.), Opkey’s AI-powered engines automatically detect these changes and fix them dynamically without human intervention. The overall testing process becomes more efficient with increased productivity and faster delivery.
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