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Prerna Bhatt
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Migrating Oracle EBS to Cloud via Test Automation to Avoid Challenges

Migrating Oracle EBS to Cloud Challenges

Enterprises that have been using Oracle EBS for a long time have customized it as per their unique business needs. However, when you move to the Oracle Cloud, you only have configurations and very limited customizations. Some of the existing configurations in EBS might work in the oracle cloud while some will be replaced by standard business flows available in Oracle Cloud. So, critical workflows and business processes need to be tested.

Many enterprises have integrated Oracle EBS with productivity tools such as Google Docs, payroll services, or Microsoft Office 365. While migrating to Oracle cloud, enterprises need to plan the testing across integration points to find out adapter-related issues, runtime issues, & file-server-related issues.

Oracle rolls out quarterly updates along with security patches and minor updates to deliver new features, functionality, & bug fixes. For update readiness, enterprises need to understand how changes have impacted the existing configurations and business processes. Whether or not new features have negatively impacted the existing processes?

To test the configurations and multiple scenarios, often QA teams struggle to have relevant data sets. So, adequate relevant data needs to be prepared to execute testing.

Migrating Oracle EBS to Cloud via Test Automation

Risk-based Continuous Migration Testing is all about testing early, often, & comprehensively. Configuration testing is a vital phase of this strategy that helps you to identify, outline and analyze your existing business processes. Some of the common examples of configuration testing are

Ledger configurations
Sub-ledger Accounting rules
Tax geographies
Organization geographies

Risk-based
continuous test automation eliminates all the guesswork out of determining what needs to be tested. Rather it helps you to identify the most at-risk areas and recommends test cases for the same. It eliminates hours of effort and struggle, enabling QA teams to find out.

What gaps exist in SaaS (Oracle Cloud) as compared to existing business processes in Oracle EBS?

What happens to your existing customizations and extensions?

Do the existing configurations are still working in the cloud environment?

Do some of the customized workflows get replaced by standard configurations?

Apart from ensuring risk-free migration, risk-based testing also provides you update readiness for the releases. Since change automatically synchronizes across all your impacted areas, it alleviates the "maintenance burden" that undermines the test automation initiatives. Thus, with risk-based Oracle EBS Automation, you can make a risk-free migration.

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