Financial Automation Testing and Global Implementation across Several Entities
Project Overview
- Customer is a large hi-tech entertainment publishing company.
- The customer has a presence globally in 26 countries and was embarked on a multi-phase Oracle ERP program. As part of that program, the customer has implemented Oracle Applications E-Business suite for Financials in Phase 1.
- The customer required to test Oracle financial application across over 30 entities in multiple test cycles like CRP1, CRP2, SIT, UAT, etc.
Objectives / Challenges
- As the customer was implementing ERP systems for the first time, they don't have the proper ERP specific test scenarios to test.
- Since Oracle implementation was planned to complete in 9 months, there wasn’t enough time to test Oracle Applications across 30 entities in several test cycles.
- Also, to test across several entities require a lot of testing bandwidth (Business users time) which as not available.
- Customer hence decided to go for automated testing to reduce cycle time and reduce business users dependency.
Solution Implemented
- Implemented Oracle OATS (Oracle Applications Testing Suite) Rel 12.3.0.1 for Oracle Applications E-Business Suite version R12.1.x regression testing.
- We developed manual scripts across 9 modules. Modules automated were General Ledger (GL), Account Payables (AP), Account Receivables (AR), Fixed Assets (FA), Cash, Purchasing, iProcurement (iProc).
- Used OATS automated testing scripts during phase-1 implementation itself which helped customer to complete the global implementation in 9 months.
Benefits Delivered
- Significant cost and time saving.
- Implementation was done in 9 months period for Phase 1 due to the reduction of application cycle time with automated application testing.
- Testing Process was done in 10 days per cycle.
- We pre-tested before the user's had manually tested the scenarios.
- Used OATS for data conversions such as Suppliers and Invoices.
