Innovation Blog Series: Accelerate your digital transformation journey with easier, faster, and more reliable testing
When it comes to your testing environment, Oracle Cloud updates are delivered quarterly, with two rounds of testing required. The first round is completed in the test environment, and the second occurs two weeks later in the production environment. Manual testing is a time-consuming task, taking on average of 7.5 days, and requires two to three staff members to test all processes. The result of this labor-intensive process is increased testing time, less test coverage, and the risk of defect leakage to the production environment.
Inspirage has developed a robust and proven testing framework, our Automated Testing Framework, which replaces manual testing by automating some of the repetitive — but necessary — tasks used in regression testing. This helps customers better handle frequent application changes due to patching activities, constant business process improvements by customers, and rollouts to new divisions/business entities.
Inspirage’s Automated Testing Framework
Inspirage’s Automated Testing Framework is well equipped to manage patch migration testing, regression testing, functional unit testing/system testing, and mobile testing. It can significantly increase the speed of test execution and accuracy of the testing process to deliver return on investment and quality products. Some of the advantages of using the framework are:
- High testing coverage for a new product release.
- Flexibility for running in multiple browsers at the same time.
- Script execution in multiple environments at the same time, thus optimizing efficiency.
- Generation of automated reports for easier, faster, and efficient analysis of result logs.
- Identifying defects up front, resulting in a 65% expected reduction in annual testing costs and an 80% reduction in patch testing time.
What you need to know
Before using Inspirage’s Automated Testing Framework, a business should keep the following considerations in mind. Functional experts will be required to share the manual test scripts, which detail the test steps, with the automation team at the start of the requirements gathering phase. These Functional team members will also need to communicate any scope changes to the automation team in advance. Next, the automation team will review the existing automation test repository and then develop/modify the test scripts based on your company’s requirements. Finally, they will review and update the test scripts after every major application upgrade/patch.
Inspirage’s Automated Testing Framework follows these practices for effectively automating testing processes:
- Enhances efficiency during the design and development of automated test scripts by enabling the reuse of components or code.
- Enables reliable issue and bug detection reports with pass/fail screenshots for each test case and delivers proper root-cause analysis with minimum human intervention for the system being tested.
- Improves utilization of resources by executing multiple test cases in parallel and enables maximum returns on efforts.
- Creates automated tests more resistant to UI (User Interface) changes and tests large volumes of system data quickly and with minimal effort.
Inspirage has the answers to your questions
With continual releases of updates, configuration, patching, and modifications for cloud applications, it is critical to have a systematic testing method that will not impact your production environment. Inspirage’s Automated Testing Framework, available on the the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, is built with a focus on long-term utilization and will help increase efficiency, save time, and provide reliable results while keep project timelines on track.
If you are on the fence about moving to Oracle Cloud due to gaps between your business requirements and Oracle’s Cloud offering, it is possible that we already built a solution to bridge that gap. If we do not have a prebuilt solution to address your challenges, we can customize something to fit. We will do the work behind the scenes, so you can focus on growing your business. Please visit the Oracle Cloud Marketplace to see a complete listing of Inspirage Solutions and contact us with any questions or to schedule a demo.
