Archive for July, 2011

Best Practice for Testing Your Oracle E-Business Suite

Whether you are planning to implement or upgrade to Oracle’s E-Business Suite Release 12.1, knowing that you will have to perform an Oracle application test does not sound fun.

Historically upgrades can be a pain, time consuming and expensive since the time and resource it takes to move to a new version of the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software can be quite costly. Upgrades, especially functional upgrades, might take months of planning, testing, validation, and require business users to take time out of their daily workloads to check the new system.

What is required is a robust process for assuring Oracle application quality and stability. Organisations must plan on efficient testing activities that start from the project kick-off right the way through to the last few weeks before the project go-live. If application quality and testing are not managed well, it can result in serious doubts by business users over the acceptability of the upgraded Oracle system and potentially fail to deliver the promised business value.

Join Original Software on a webinar that attempts to dispel your testing fears and show you how to perform a best practice method for a swift and efficient Oracle application test. You can register here!

Listen to John Miner, as he helps to guide you to a pain-free Oracle E-Business Suite implementation or upgrade. Even if you can’t attend on the day, it is still worth registering so you can have access to the recording on demand.

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Apple Joins Testing Hall of Shame

Another organisation has made it to our Software Testing Hall of Shame this week and what an embarrassment to such a high profile company.

According to an article by ITPRO, hackers are taking a big bite out of Apple’s data security.

A website known as “JailBreakMe” has been exploiting Apple’s iOS flaw by allowing users to upload software onto Apple devices that has not been approved.

Worse still, Apple users can potentially have malware downloaded onto their devices.

Affected devices include the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2 and the iPod Touch running iOS up to version 4.3.3. The soon-to-be-released iOS 5 could be affected too, once it is released in the Autumn.

The German Federal Office for Information Security, as reported by the Guardian, has deemed the situation serious enough to put out a warning on the “critical weaknesses.”

Tom Brewster, ITPRO, states: “Hacker group Dev-Team released the new jailbreak service this week, allowing users to hack their devices solely by following steps online through the mobile Safari browser.”

Apple could have been spared the embarrassment and expense with more efficient and thorough penetration testing of their systems.

Application quality should be at the heart of any development project. It just goes to show, even the big high-tec shops still get it wrong!

Throwaway Test Automation?

There comes a time in every Software Tester’s career when test automation seems desirable. A QA utopia of shorter testing cycles and applications delivered on time! But unfortunately for most, that dream of application quality, as a result of more efficient testing through automation, has become more of a burden than a helping hand.

So why has test automation become so cumbersome?

Software test automation has been available for over a quarter of a century, but the practice still has many sceptics and the biggest barrier to adoption remains the level of maintenance required to sustain it.

Achieving just a moderate level of automation coverage requires considerable investment of budget and resource. With increasing software development complexity and more and more IT departments taking on an agile approach, traditional test automation has become too cumbersome for most to sustain.

You can explore this issue further by joining us on a webinar discussing why test automation has failed and why there is a need to have throwaway test automation!

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