Optimize Oracle Cloud Quarterly Update With Test Automation

If you are familiar with Oracle Cloud applications, you will be aware of the Oracle Cloud quarterly updates. Theoretically, these updates enhance your programs by adding new functionalities. In actuality, they frequently cause disruptions, delays, and operational freezes.

How can you, instead of feeling stressed out by these upgrades, seize the chance for development and creativity?

Testing holds the key to the solution. A strong testing plan is your defense against malfunctions, your answer for unforeseen modifications, and your route to successful software development. Oracle Cloud apps are tailored to your specific requirements; thus, it makes sense that your test strategy should be too. That’s where Oracle’s top-rated app, Opkey, comes in.

Ultimate Tips for Testing Oracle Cloud Quarterly Updates

1. Early Evaluation and Understanding of Readiness Materials

This should be the initial step in your update procedure. Begin about one month before delivering the test environment. Your team should thoroughly review and understand the Oracle Application Readiness site’s New Feature Summaries. You can learn about functional updates and security role modifications from each summary.

You will discover:

• A brief overview of the new features included in the update is provided in the New Feature Summary.
• Features with Opt In Expiration informs users about Opt In features that have already expired and those that will expire in a future release.

2. Update Test Plans

Once you’ve completed the material review, you should update your test plans to include stages for running through your primary business processes.

3. Verify the Test Environment

Sign in to your test cadence environment to ensure that everything works as planned and that it accurately represents your production environment. If you haven’t changed the setup and configuration of the test environment since the last update, and it’s working well, you’re done with this step.

If you’ve been actively developing in your test environment, the situation will be very different. If it no longer resembles your production environment, you must schedule a Production-to-Test Environment Refresh to bring it in line with the actual production environment.

4. Testing

Start testing as soon as the quarterly updates are deployed in the test environment to make sure the modifications haven’t affected your current business procedures in a bad way. Remember that you have only two weeks to test Oracle Cloud quarterly upgrades. Be thorough. This is where automated testing has a significant benefit over manual testing, saving you hundreds of hours of repetitive labor.

Some of the recommended tests are:

• Perform integration tests to ensure that APIs (such as XML and REST) continue to function properly, as well as to exercise your agents and back end operations.
• Evaluate third-party external systems (such as rating, distance, and service time engines).
• Test critical business process flows for various positions inside your organization.
• Test critical custom reports.

How Does Opkey Help?

We are delighted to be the industry standard for test automation and an innovator in testing methodologies. Opkey is a truly unique no-code platform that allows non-IT staff to design and scale test automation without requiring sophisticated knowledge. Ramp-up time is days, not weeks or months, and Opkey consistently reduces our client’s Oracle update windows to three days.