Creating and implementing a Workday tenant on your system can bring a variety of issues with it. Will you be able to execute the implementation within your budget plan and on-time? Will your business process configurations be precise? Are you confident that you have the right data security features? Will you have the ability to effortlessly incorporate data with customers’ systems?
All of these challenges can only be addressed through rigorous testing, additionally, as the market culture shifts from left to right, the organization must constantly adapt to new developments, as does its Workday application. At the first opportunity when your company starts new business processes with fresh integrations, adjusts existing ones, or retires old ones, test assurance stands up being the main element in doing so. Finally, constant updates from Workday requires more testing to make sure that Workday’s update didn’t corrupt any of your business-critical processes. Workday has two major launches annually, although these releases are heavily examined by Workday, they might unexpectedly impact the customized processes. As a result, it is necessary to evaluate your business-critical processes in the new release environment to make certain that whatever will work as meant when the release goes to production.
Importance of an End-to-End Test Automation tool for Workday:
Since Workday is a workflow-based solution and not a transactional one, processes often intersect (as do security groups/settings). This means sometimes a change made in one area can have a consequent effect elsewhere in your configuration. While every customer has a unique configuration Although Workday thoroughly tests its software before its release, some customer still faces some issues because of their unique configurations.
Meeting your test objective during the below areas and timelines with the test automation tool, would be a key differentiator in meeting tight timelines and quality and assured releases.
Let’s look at some of these in detail where the test automation tools really need to provide value for:
Workday Updates testing:
If you don’t regularly perform regression testing outside of the Workday preview period (for example, regression testing around your common configuration changes or weekly versions of Workday), some of your test scripts for Workday are likely to fail and the data on it has become out of date with your tenant since you last used it. If the same happens and you use them as-is, you’ll waste precious time during the five-week Workday’s update window with:
• delays getting started;
• managing confusion;
• troubleshooting defects;
• correcting scripts; and
• obtaining new data that meet the conditions of each test
Therefore, before the preview window arrives, you must update your scripts and test data.
Workday Security testing:
Indicating that your security configuration is effective is essential to develop that confidence in your organization’s controls and to meet the auditing requirements of today’s regulatory environment. Efficient, exhaustive testing and record-keeping are crucial to meeting these requirements. Through testing and record-keeping is crucial to meeting these requirements.
Key considerations include:
• Can your workers only observe data that is relevant to them and their jobs?
• Are you sure your security roles only have the skills you need?
• Can you provide answers to these questions with proper evidence?
• Is your evidence up to date?
It is important to be aware of these issues to avoid the significant impacts they can have on your businesses and organization.
Workday Configurations testing:
Organizations who are shifting from a legacy process to a new system will strive to proceed with Workday testing to test absolutely everything that may include testing the underlying system from the actual usage or the server through to the database, and then finally the configurations.
The test effort is then required for you to test the configuration of the platform, for example, the business processes, the security, and integrations, rather than the underlying systems themselves at the ongoing and post phases of deployment
Top 3 test automation tools to consider:
Kainos:
The Kainos Smart platform, a proud partner and one of the most popular test automation tools for Workday, can simplify your BP, integrations, security, and custom report regression testing. Kainos platform enables end-users to create test scenarios for business processes, integrations, and security. It makes your testing more efficient, more scalable across different modules and configurations for Workday. You can create large sets of test scenarios to test your tenant during each upgrade so that you can be sure that your processes are working.
The Kainos test automation platform reduces hands-on effort by 90% during Workday upgrade testing, test coverage increased over 400% and detects 200% more defects as compared to manual testing.
OpKey Surge:
OpKey Surge, the AI-powered test automation platform, is helping organizations to validate their operational changes on a large scale, from organizational structures to BP configurations. With its pre-built automated test, risk-based test automation, WD report validation, and integration testing, OpKey Surge combine business knowledge and regional requirements with your Workday system, reducing effort and cost by up to 90% as compared to manual testing.
OpKey’s Pre-built test accelerator for configurations and comprehensive test pack for Action and Field level Workday security can test HCM, financials, payroll, recruiting, integrations and reports for over 50000+ Workday users and over 10 countries, meaning you can gain valuable automated testing and reduced effort and resource requirements for testing across your whole Workday solution.
OpKey with its multi-technology framework also provides key support to business integrations like PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, etc, and hence provides its customers confidence that data will flow in to and out of your Workday system accurately.
Selenium:
Selenium being the open-source test automation tool for developers and testers can be used for recording tests for Workday. Selenium IDE using the context menu lets you record the steps when you exercise your application but also allows you to extend the previously recorded test cases with additional steps in a very convenient way. The configurations can be understood for a new program and related configurable test cases can be recorded using Selenium IDE.
To use Selenium effectively, users have to possess advanced programming skills and need to spend considerable time to build automation frameworks and libraries necessary for the automation of their Workday application. This is the major disadvantage of Selenium, which is addressed by other codeless automation testing tools.
Conclusion:
Your choice of testing tools should not only meet your current needs but should also focus on potential trends and improvements of digital and business transformation. A decent tool should support basic optimization, automation of test case and data generation, workday security, and optimization of tests to shorter release cycles. As organizations are looking to expand the breadth, depth, quality, and consistency of their testing with fewer people and in less time, it will be exciting to see how existing and future tools apply AI/ML to address future challenges.