As systems get increasingly complicated whilst at the same time businesses demand an even greater rate of change and innovation, traditional manual testing methods have come under pressure to keep up. With Oracle Real Application Testing, and Oracle Application Testing Suite (ATS) organizations can better manage change and the essential testing that it necessitates.

Reduce Risk and Costs

Anyone involve in delivery of a project has inevitably had experience of projects being deployed and then encountering issues that were not picked up during the test phase. Perhaps this led to functional issues, or as is perhaps more common performance problems, whatever the issue the cost of resolving a specific issue once in production is exponentially higher (up to 100x according to analysts).

By using better, more controlled, more automated, testing procedures it is possible to reduce the risks associated with testing, as well as cut costs by both streamlining and automating the testing, and reducing the costs associated with fixes to live systems.

Infrastructure Change Protection

Infrastructure change is an integral part of any mid term plan. Organizations change hardware, upgrade operating systems, migrate to the latest version of a database, and regularly apply patches to obtain security or other fixes. What seems at the highest level like a simple, sensible, patch still has the possibility of creating unwanted side effects. Nowhere is this more relevant than with the Database that drives our critical systems. The desire to patch, or upgrade to take advantage of the latest features is strong, but this risks associated often cause organizational inertia. Typically organizations perform manual regression testing that consumes time and resource, and is incomplete in its scope, testing only a fraction of the data values and transactions a real user community would perform.

Oracle Real Application Testing eliminates this risk. By capturing the real workload from production systems and allowing it to be seamlessly played back against test systems it allows for complete regression testing in hours as opposed to weeks or months, reducing risk, eliminating costs and allowing organizations to evolve faster to take advantage of new technologies.

Application Development Testing

When developing Applications, or simply enhancing existing ones, testing is a critical component. Oracle Application Testing Suite allows for unit, functional and regression tests to be automated, for results to be collated, and for full fault and fix tracking.

With an open standard testing script language allowing for easy creation of new tests, ATS allows organisations to proivide a complete, auditable and robust test cycle for any development project, and ensure that applications are of the highest quality when released to live.