Ten years ago, if you asked a CIO why they test, they said: “Compliance.”
Today? “Strategy, strategy, strategy.”
Enterprise testing for Oracle and Workday is more than a means of avoiding technical disruption (though post-go-live incidents aren’t any less of a blow than in ages past). Today, leaders expect testing to bring visibility to IT project timelines, speed up new integrations, and increase ROI on investments in cloud apps.
To put it simply, from the perspective of leaders across the C-suite, testing is the lever you pull to ensure business continuity for the course of your tenure.
Enterprise applications like Workday, Oracle, and SAP are releasing new features at a faster clip than ever before. That’s a good thing. Even the most grievous bout of nostalgia couldn’t see us pining for on-prem. But, we’ve also run into a problem. That complexity makes testing harder than ever.
Testing for both migrations and implementations, and for ongoing updates and changes, requires the ability to navigate billions of possible permutations of workflows across multiple apps.
So, just as we’re expecting more out of testing, it’s becoming harder than ever to execute. What gives? Well, the answer is either you can train a tactical team of the best test engineers… or update what you use and how you do it.
In our experience in the enterprise application management space, enterprises that succeed do five things:
1. Step Zero: Intelligent Discovery and Risk Assessment
Sounds simple, but you won’t get anywhere if you don’t know exactly what to test. Start with finding some means of intelligent change discovery (identifying updated configurations, business processes, and integrations). This means you’ll know from the get-go where to spend extra energy. Focus on what matters most, and you’ll slash test effort, while maintaining coverage.
2. Treat Data as a Strategic Asset
In enterprise applications, data means little unless it’s organized and analyzed in the context of the real-world scenarios where it’s put to work. Enterprise-grade testing platforms leverage capabilities like automated data mining and synthetic data generation to simulate system function. This approach ensures that you have an accurate picture of the functionality of your system.
3. Prioritize Self-Healing and Maintainability
The most enviable testing process isn’t the one that runs the biggest barrage of brittle scripts. Rather, it’s the one that automatically stays functional over time. Leaders get the best results out of tests that can self-heal when application elements change. This capacity to self-heal reduces work associated with maintenance cycles, simplifying update testing.
4. Move Beyond Scripts to Intelligent Test Agents
Scaling enterprise automation requires more than hundreds of Selenium or Power Automate scripts. The future lies in test agents. They’re autonomous, AI-enhanced entities that execute, adapt, and optimize testing intelligently. These agents provide flexibility and scalability that basic automation cannot match.
5. Enterprise Grade means Testing the Whole Enterprise
To truly be enterprise-grade, (beyond enterprise testing for Oracle and Workday) a testing platform must be able to seamlessly test workflows across disparate systems. Flexibility in this context is the ability of a piece of software to navigate novel scenarios and still be able to assure a change. If it can’t test the whole enterprise, we don’t want it!
Why Opkey Sets the Enterprise Standard
We believe in bold automation that fundamentally transforms how much you expect of your management systems, and how much you can get out of your business technology. It’s no wonder, then, that we’ve built these five pillars into our product.
As the leading enterprise-grade Oracle and Workday testing platform, Opkey empowers organizations to automate testing, increasing speed and drastically decreasing the instance of defects.
Opkey uses innovation to help you achieve a higher degree of enterprise reliability, helping organizations stay current with Oracle and Workday updates and reduce risk.
Beyond any measurable KPI, though, the surest indicator of success is when a partner tells us, “My people don’t lose sleep over this anymore. It’s just a non-event.”
To see how we can help you create an intelligent testing ecosystem, reach out to us.
