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ITKO Case Study

Oracle

Overview

Oracle is the world’s largest enterprise software company. With a solution suite that spans entire IT architectures, from foundational development platforms such as Java technology, to industry-specific business software products, the firm is constantly seeking ways to optimize the delivery of new functionality to meet complex, changing customer needs.

Customer Profile

Industry:

Technology - Software Development

The Challenge

Multiple technology teams within Oracle, notably, the Oracle Fusion middleware team, and the AIA (Application Integration Architecture) organizations were looking to improve delivery efficiency, through more repeatable processes and test automation. Some key challenges included:

LISA Solution Areas:

Advanced Web UI Testing, Service Virtualization, Component, Service and System-wide Integration, Functional, Regression, Load & Performance Testing

 Manual effort of huge suites of regression tests. “Our

Relevant Technologies: products have 3 dimensions (including design-time, run-time Oracle Fusion Web 2.0 Apps, Web and change-time UIs), and we needed better coverage on the Services (WSDL/SOAP), XML, Oracle thick and thin clients,” said Amitabh Nandan, Oracle Fusion AIA, Oracle Databases, WebLogic ESB, ADF quality lead. “For our Web 2.0 and Java Swing UIs, we others couldn’t find other applications on the market for doing that job, without requiring mostly manual testing. We had amassed a suite of more than 8000 tests that needed to be run with each release.”

 Difficulty creating and maintaining ready pre-production environments. For core business-process

level software such as Oracle’s AIA, specific “Process Integration Packs” or PIPs, must be tested for stability in real-world customer environments. “We couldn’t test the middleware as thoroughly as we wanted throughout development, as we had to have the whole environment ready for testing, which wasn’t always feasible,” said Nand...