Functional Testing for Financials – Oracle E-Business Suite

Project Overview

  • Customer is a large supplier of fitness and weight loss products.
  • Customer embarked on a major business transformation journey based on a digital strategy to improve the customer experience.
  • As part of this initiative, the customer was implementing Oracle Applications, Oracle PLM, Oracle ATG long with SOA based integrations for their one of the business.
Process Point - Customer

Objectives / Challenges

  • The customer was transforming business-critical technologies by implementing several Oracle applications, application testing is a big challenge as there are several moving parts (various wave releases).
  • Customer used OATS automated testing during their digital transformation Wave 1 testing.
  • The customer decided to automate the oracle financial applications using  OATS Tool as a part of there Wave 2 testing.
Challenges

Solution Implemented

  • Leveraged Oracle Applications Testing Suite (OATS) version 12.5.0.2.0 for extending the automation to the financial application of Oracle E-Business Suite R12.
  • Over 4500 business test scenarios are developed for Oracle Financials.
  • Modules automated were General Ledger (GL), Account Payables (AP), Account Receivables (AR), Fixed Assets (FA), Intercompany and cycle testing scenarios.
  • Over 100 scripts were automated across Oracle financial modules.
Process Point - Solution

Benefits Delivered

  • All 4500 test scenarios were tested with reduced cycle time using OATS scripts.
  • Customer leveraged OATS scripts for functional regression testing of Wave 2 of the transformation program in multiple test cycles.
  • The customer was able to conduct end to end system testing across ATG web portals to Oracle ERP to legacy systems.
  • Decreased the cost of regression testing of the applications and improved the quality of the testing.
  • Increased the reliability and repeatability of the regression testing.
Benefits