Procurement leaders manage supplier onboarding, price negotiations, and purchase-order process controls among their core functions. When it comes to technology, they’ve currently been adapting to AI as it enables innovation across procurement and finance functions.
So, imagine how welcome it is when these business leaders must divert their focus to test new deployments or upgrades in business software including Dynamics 365. That shift is disruptive, time-consuming, and error-prone in a testing context. On a good day.
“Testing is always falling onto the business users, not the IT department,” said Magnus Perri, Group CEO of elevaite365 Test Automation, in a recent discussion with Dynamic Communities and Cloud Wars CEO John Siefert at Community Summit NA. Testing is work that businesspeople generally — not just in procurement — aren’t well equipped to do.
Because of this mismatch between expertise and software testing requirements, business users have a tendency to move quickly through testing and may well miss problems or bugs. “They’re probably not testers. They don’t know what to be checking for,” said Michael Catterall, Product Lead at elevaite365 Test Automation, in the same discussion. The lack of testing aptitude tends to make tests inefficient, threatening project timelines.
The limitations and challenges inherent in human-based testing mean customers are not in optimal position to fully capitalize on the most up-to-date features of Dynamics 365 which, in turn, limits their ability to deliver business innovation enabled by tech platforms that are rapidly adding AI features.
Enter AI-enhanced software testing, which overcomes many of the shortcomings inherent in manual testing. Automation and AI make testing more efficient and scalable while reducing or eliminating human error so companies can embrace the latest software innovations as they become available. It also eliminates risks including lengthy system downtime or unforeseen costs during testing cycles.
elevaite Your Testing
elevaite 365 Test Automation is at the forefront of smart testing; the company’s solution is enhanced with AI technology to reduce the time, cost, and risks faced when implementing, upgrading and maintaining D365 Applications, customizations, and integrations.
- Allows users to record their business processes a single time, then run those processes as many times as needed in the test environment powered by self-learning automation
- Identify issues such as incorrect field values, unexpected popups, and error messages automatically for higher quality and accuracy
- Repairs test cases when issues such as process changes arise, offloading that manual resolution process from users
- Leverages ISVs who test their software using elevaite365 Test Automation which, in turn, yields a robust library of test scripts that customers can use for rapid time to value
There’s another key feature in terms of flexibility and offloading the testing burden from users: “They can run it at any point. It can run at midnight. It can run every day, or whenever they want,” Catterall said, because it’s automated and doesn’t require direct human involvement. This level of flexibility, of course, lets customers manage testing as a non-disruptive process.
Outcomes
The AI-powered approach to test automation delivers a range of business and technology benefits, from productivity to new opportunities to assert competitive advantage.
“We take away the current burdens that are required for testing so that customers can take more updates. They can innovate more. They can get new technology on their systems faster because they have testing automated,”Catterall said.
Business users, in turn, get to focus on driving outcomes that relate directly to their core responsibilities.
Automated testing catches bugs and process breaks before they reach production, improving reliability and avoiding business disruptions while keeping project schedules on track – and keeping customers current with the latest software features.
Applying automated tools, moreover, reduces the need for, and reliance on, QA or consulting teams. That means lower costs and faster completion of tests. In fact, elevaite365 Test Automation estimates time and costs can be reduced up to 90% using AI and automation.
Conclusion
elevaite365 Test Automation extends AI into another core aspect of business operations and IT, eliminating costs to the business, hits to human productivity, and potential disruptions to business and tech functions. But it does much more than modernize traditional testing approaches: It creates new opportunities to drive innovations that will differentiate your business at a time when AI is changing the competitive landscape across virtually all industries.
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