Since the earliest versions of Oracle's E-Business Suite, users have had to test their implementations to ensure proper functionality in production. However, as available functionality in the Applications has increased unabated, and customer configuration and integration options have become more numerous, the need for functional testing has grown many-fold.
There are several reasons for this. First, multiple acquisitions by Oracle have brought additional functionality to the core applications. In addition, competition between Oracle and other vendors in the marketplace, such as SAP, has resulted in the pressure to add new application functionality at a dizzying pace. This increased complexity in the Applications has made it virtually impossible to test all available paths through the software. Add to this the easy ability to customize applications post install, such as with forms or database customizations, or even just Descriptive Flex Fields, and the combinations to test become endless. Whereas manual testing was able to effectively handle the prior generations of Oracle Applications, today's more complicated world has driven the need to automate testing in the same way that the Applications themselves have automated corporate business processes.
The Accelerator™ Testing and Documentation Suite for the Oracle E-Business Suite is a pre-built, automated testing system that allows you to significantly reduce or even eliminate pulling in end users or IT staff to perform new implementation or on-going functional testing. This includes testing for new implementations, patches, family packs, critical patch updates, major upgrades, as well as technology stack upgrades or modifications. The Accelerator™ does this by automating the majority of test cases, previously performed by hand, for both 11i and Release 12 environments. Extensive testing of both functional processes and data can now be scheduled and run in a fully un-attended mode, significantly decreasing testing cycles, while simultaneously increasing testing coverage and reducing go-live risk.
The Accelerator ™ also thoroughly documents all testing performed and results achieved, providing information for SOX and audit compliance reporting with no additional cost. Through the addition of the Accelerator's™ Documentation Engine, this reporting can be expanded to include the automated creation of training manuals, UAT testing documentation, regulatory compliance reporting, as well as fully customized reports. Taken together, the Accelerator™ offers a compelling ROI that allows you to do much more with less, allowing personnel to be freed for higher priority activities.
The Accelerator™ for the Oracle E-Business Suite is built using all-new 3rd Generation (3G) automated testing technology. This technology enables existing functional testing teams and personnel by eliminating the programming languages of prior automated testing tools, removing the need to acquire or contract for expensive, specialized testing personnel. In addition, the Accelerator's™ 3G automated test case generator, cFactory™, allows the Accelerator™ to be easily extended to cover customizations, unique business processes and even non-Oracle or in-house applications
The Accelerator™ for the Oracle E-Business Suite is built upon HP Software's Quality Management foundation, including Quality Center, QuickTest Professional and Business Process Testing.
Idhasoft is also proud to be HP's sole preferred go-to-market partner for Oracle E-Business Suite testing. In addition to automated functional testing, HP offers a broad range of Quality Management and Operational tools for the E-Business Suite.
cFactory™ is an all-new, application-aware automated test case creation platform. It can automatically generate test cases for any software that uses GUI components. cFactory™ runs on Business Process Testing technology from HP Software and allows non-technical users to create fully automated functional tests without recording, programming or scripting. cFactory™ does this by utilizing the latest generation of test automation, 3rd Generation or 3G, to create test automation components directly through its own analysis of application forms and screens. These automatically created test components can then be easily dragged and dropped together to create entire end-to-end testing processes. Not only does this enable non-technical functional experts and testers, it also allows for test automation to be created between 2 and 8 times faster than is possible with traditional testing tools
With cFactory™, test components use English language keywords to perform their testing, not the programming languages of prior generations of tools. Older programming scripts have been replaced with simple tables, also allowing non-technical personnel to quickly and easily modify or maintain their own tests going forward via easy-to-use pull-down menus. This eliminates the need to hire specialized test automation personnel while simultaneously improving ROI.
cFactory™ is an application-aware test case generator. This means that it contains a rules base which describes how an application works. This rules base is built using open-standards and allows cFactory™ to be easily expanded to auto-generate test components against a wide range of application environments. As a result, cFactory™ is not only able to generate test automation for the major ERP and CRM packaged applications, but can also auto-generate automated tests for in-house & custom applications, specialized packaged apps, and even legacy systems. cFactory™ supports many types of applications today.
cFactory can automatically generate tests cases for these solutions:
cFactory™ is fully integrated with and includes the TDMS™ data management system. TDMS™ enables cFactory™ test cases to be completely data-driven, allowing the testing data to automatically change the flow of the test. In addition, TDMS™ auto-generates test data sheets directly from cFactory™ test cases, and includes variable technology that minimizes the need to maintain or update testing data from run to run.