Understanding & Addressing Common Challenges in Oracle Cloud Continuous Testing

Businesses across the globe are replacing on-premise, legacy systems with scalable and agile computing systems in the cloud to avail advantages like reduced IT costs, data security, and business continuity. One such highly popular cloud is Oracle Cloud. It is considered as a hot-pick among enterprises due to its support for customer-facing apps or custom database applications.

Custom Apps can be easily migrated to Oracle Cloud infrastructure with minimal re-architecture, re-integration or business process changes. Another advantage which it offers to its customers is continuous innovation in the form of quarterly updates. However, enterprises that have already migrated to Oracle cloud are struggling to implement continuous testing for Oracle Cloud Apps. In this article, we’ll discuss what major challenges enterprises are facing in continuously testing their Oracle Cloud Apps. We’ll also discuss how to address these challenges with AI-driven test automation.

Top Challenges in implementing continuous testing for Oracle Cloud Apps

Continuous testing is all about testing early, often, & comprehensively to accelerate release cycles and to reduce risks. To implement continuous testing, it is necessary to implement test automation. However, in the case of Oracle Cloud Apps, implementing automation is not as easy as it appears due to the following reasons.

• Oracle cloud apps consists of dynamic web elements that don’t have fixed attributes like ID, class, name, or CSS. So, standard test automation tools that use element properties to identify controls cannot be used as elements in Oracle cloud changes dynamically.
• The tables in Oracle Cloud apps are database driven. It means that rows and columns in the tables are created dynamically and changes as per the privileges of the user.
• In case, if you’re able to automate Oracle Cloud Apps, then maintenance of automation will require huge efforts. Since Oracle Cloud Apps features dynamic elements and updates are rolled out quarterly, there are chances that automation scripts break whenever there is a change in the object property (Name, ID, Xpath, CSS etc.).

The proposed Solution

To address these challenges, enterprises need to invest in the right test automation framework that not only overcome the challenges of the dynamic elements but also make automation script maintenance effortless. Oracle cloud quarterly updates have the potential to disrupt business processes if updates are deployed without testing. So, enterprises should look for a test automation framework that can help IT, managers, in understanding the impact of the changes/ new features on the current business processes and procedures.

So, enterprises should opt for an Oracle test automation platform that not only specifies changes and risks in impacted automation scripts across your configured modules and business processes but also takes away your automation script maintenance efforts by autonomously healing scripts. AI-powered test automation framework can automatically identify the changes and heal the script autonomously. So, you don’t have to worry about changes in the object property.

Enterprises should opt for a framework that takes away the burden by autonomously recommending test cases based on the highlighted risks to ensure maximum coverage. Investing in such a test automation framework will help you embrace innovation by quickly validating configurations, workflows, reports, & integrations.