The Client
Federal Agency
This Oracle Federal Financials implementation replaces and modernizes various accounting systems with a single, standardized system. The internal system will be upgraded to Oracle Financials 11i, eliminating redundant accounting systems. This project will allow the client to meet government financial regulations including the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 (FFMIA).
The Technology
Oracle Financials Version: 11i
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Benefits
The Challenge
To begin the process of defining the staffing solutions for this client, the expert professionals delivered by our senior recruiting and staffing team dug deep to understand their client’s organizational structure, their culture, and most importantly their vision.
Frequent feature upgrades and releases necessitated many cycles of regression testing. To speed up the regression testing phase and increase testing productivity, the client required to automate the regression testing process completely. The main challenge was to evolve a robust test strategy/approach that would maximize the benefit from automation. In addition, the team needed to create maintainable scripts taking into account the interrelated functionality and the fact that the application was stable and data intensive.
The Solution
The test team used Test Automation Framework developed by the IT experts delivered by the staffing specialists at The Squires Group. The methodology adopted for generating WinRunner scripts was functional decomposition in combination with data driven approach (where test data is stored in a separate data pool and is not embedded in the test scripts). This script development methodology involved identification of repeated actions and functions and creation of user-defined Function Script libraries, Business Function Script libraries, which in-turn could be used by multiple scripts to simulate different test scenarios. The test data was maintained in separate data files and could be changed for each test run as applicable. Test execution was managed and controlled with Test Director.
The Success
The benefits of this automation included rapid development of test scripts, high maintainability, and the ability to accommodate frequent changes in the application without changing the framework code. This enabled the customer to reduce regression test cycle effort while achieving better test coverage.
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