Why Workday?
Workday has become the foundation of enterprise operations and employee productivity. Companies are spending an increasing amount of time in testing the functionality of their Workday tenants to ensure full audit compliance and smooth user experience.
Why Automation?
We are living in a new automation age in which robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work activities better and cost effective than humans but are also increasingly capable of accomplishing activities that include cognitive capabilities.
Automation can enable productivity growth, reduce errors, and improve the quality and speed, and in some cases achieving outcomes that go beyond human capabilities.
Why Test Automation tool for Workday?
Workday is a workflow-based solution and not a transactional one, processes often intersect/integrate. Sometimes, a change made in one area can have a consequent effect elsewhere in your configuration. Although Workday thoroughly tests its software before each release, Customers still faces some issues as they have unique configurations.
You have to perform regression testing for the Workday preview period (for example, regression testing around your common configuration changes or weekly versions of Workday) and your test scripts are likely to fail, also the data for your scripts would become out dated with your tenant since you last used it.
If the same happens and you use them as-is, you’ll waste time during the Workday’s update window with:
• Delays in getting started
• Managing confusion
• Troubleshooting defects
• Correcting scripts
• Obtaining new data that meet the conditions of each test
Therefore, before the preview window arrives, you must update your scripts and test data.
Hence, meeting your test objective and timelines with the Test Automation tool, would be a key differentiator in meeting tight timelines and quality and assured releases.
Tools considered for Workday:
Kainos:
The Kainos Smart platform, one of the most popular test automation tools for Workday, can simplify your BP, integrations, security, and custom report regression testing. 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.
Selenium:
Selenium being the open-source test automation tool for developers, and it 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.
To use Selenium effectively, users must 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. 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 their horizons of testing with fewer people and with lesser time, it will be exciting to see how existing and future tools address future challenges.
