Migrating Oracle EBS to Cloud via Test Automation

Business leaders are looking to transform their business technology stack and optimize economic and business benefits by migrating to the cloud. The users of Oracle EBS, E-Business Suite installation, are no more an exception to this. However,  EBS customers have an option to migrate to Oracle Cloud without much re-configuration, re-integration, or business process change. 

The migration to Oracle cloud is not a walk in the park. If not performed properly, there might be chances that application crashes may occur leading to a series of glitches and business disruption. In this article, we’ll discuss what challenges enterprises might face during Oracle Cloud Migration. We will also discuss how test focussed migration strategy can address these 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, and file-server-related issues.

Oracle rolls out quarterly updates along with security patches and minor updates to deliver new features, functionality, and 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.

Risk-based continuous migration testing is all about testing early, often, and 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

• 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.