Without a fast and trusted way to detect change impacts, upgrading your Temenos application or optimizing processes can expose the business to significant risks. There are still a lot of banks relying on manual testing or traditional testing frameworks to verify and validate changes in their critical business processes.
Test automation is critical to detecting and mitigating risks for your end-to-end core business transactions. The question is how you can find a test automation tool to test your Temenos apps; one that saves you effort and pays off in getting your business more agile, competitive and profitable?
There is a thin line separating test automation from actually seeing a return on investment from its use. No matter if you are using a commercial or open-source testing tool, test automation has hidden costs and does not always live up to what it’s expected to do.
We are listing below all the key points that need to be considered before choosing the right test automation tool, so you can reap the benefits and achieve an increased ROI :
No-code, scriptless: Non-Technical Testers can use it. Having a tool that doesn’t require in-depth technical knowledge, or programming skills can lead to lower costs.
Ease of Use and Reusability: Enabling business users with no technical background to design and execute test scripts which will be available to be re-used and easily maintained for future projects.
AI-driven Testing: The tool should be able to keep up with the advances in technology and the rise of artificial intelligence is starting to dominate all sectors. Intelligent test automation uses advanced AI and ML to deliver real, actionable and adaptive intelligence. This improves the quality and outcome of your testing but, by feeding back into the process, refines test suites and their outcomes. It prioritises and identifies the optimal user journeys and test paths to maximise test coverage with less time, cost and effort.
AI-driven Reporting and Analytics: By having your reporting automated, you get rid of human errors, and reduce the time and costs of generating reports manually. Predictive analytics and dashboards will enable better decision making by delivering metrics faster to the business. By embedding AI and Analytics in your testing process, it helps to identify issues faster and focus your testing efforts on those parts that have the biggest impact on the user experience.
Cognitive Robotic Process Automation: It should automate business processes across multiple platforms and applications, such as digital front and core banking systems like Temenos, enabling banks to automate and test end-to-end their business processes offering an improved customer experience and operational efficiency and agility in the day-to-day activities.
Agile Test Data Management: Inefficient provisioning of poor quality data means that test teams find themselves without the data required to fully test a system. You should be able to keep your data reusable without them becoming redundant with new releases, and also leverage data masking and subsetting techniques to ensure privacy and security. Through a Data as a Service solution (DaaS) you can address all the issues involved in a Temenos upgrade and significantly accelerating the pace of development and testing.
Support Agile and DevOps: Banks are increasingly adoting Agile and DevOps practices, so having chosen a tool that supports and complements these will significantly accelerate time to market for new products, built with quality and less risks.
Test Maintenance: Achieving sustainable test automation rates is critical. Your automated tests must be easily maintainable and have the ability to get automatic updates every time there is a change in the processes.
Risk Coverage Optimisation: By focusing and aligning testing to the top business risks, you ensure that your resources will be used efficiently and will be spending their efforts on what matters the most. The testing tool should be able to recommend which manual test cases should be automated in order to meet better results i.e higher risk coverage in less time, lower cost and with less people involved. The most important test cases will be executed first, enabling you to detect bugs for the critical business areas much earlier, taking advantage of a shift-left, risk-based testing approach to mitigate the risks and test changes more efficiently.
Impact Analysis: Temenos upgrades require continuous testing to identify and resolve potential impacts. By automating the impact analysis process and by automatically generating test scenarios, you are able to focus your efforts on what to test and what scenario to test it with.
End-to-end Business Testing: The tool should be able to test end-to-end your critical business process and systems, allowing your team to maximize their test coverage
Cloud & Technology Support: Having the ability to extend your testing efforts beyond Temenos applications, to other peripheral systems involved in your end-to-end transactions will make the difference and you’ll reap the benefits of a well-positioned and trusted testing strategy. Select a tool that has built with cloud in mind, as banks are gradually adopting the cloud due to lower infrastructure and maintenance costs.
API and Web services Testing: With Applications becoming more and more complex and connected, there is a need for API and Web Services Testing. The tool you choose should be able to support that and also Service Virtualisation capabilities.
There is a thin line separating test automation from actually seeing a return on investment from its use. No matter if you are using a commercial or open-source testing tool, test automation has hidden costs and does not always live up to what it’s expected to do.
We are listing below all the key points that need to be considered before choosing the right test automation tool, so you can reap the benefits and achieve an increased ROI :
No-code, scriptless: Non-Technical Testers can use it. Having a tool that doesn’t require in-depth technical knowledge, or programming skills can lead to lower costs.
Ease of Use and Reusability: Enabling business users with no technical background to design and execute test scripts which will be available to be re-used and easily maintained for future projects.
AI-driven Testing: The tool should be able to keep up with the advances in technology and the rise of artificial intelligence is starting to dominate all sectors. Intelligent test automation uses advanced AI and ML to deliver real, actionable and adaptive intelligence. This improves the quality and outcome of your testing but, by feeding back into the process, refines test suites and their outcomes. It prioritises and identifies the optimal user journeys and test paths to maximise test coverage with less time, cost and effort.
AI-driven Reporting and Analytics: By having your reporting automated, you get rid of human errors, and reduce the time and costs of generating reports manually. Predictive analytics and dashboards will enable better decision making by delivering metrics faster to the business. By embedding AI and Analytics in your testing process, it helps to identify issues faster and focus your testing efforts on those parts that have the biggest impact on the user experience.
Cognitive Robotic Process Automation: It should automate business processes across multiple platforms and applications, such as digital front and core banking systems like Temenos, enabling banks to automate and test end-to-end their business processes offering an improved customer experience and operational efficiency and agility in the day-to-day activities.
Agile Test Data Management: Inefficient provisioning of poor quality data means that test teams find themselves without the data required to fully test a system. You should be able to keep your data reusable without them becoming redundant with new releases, and also leverage data masking and subsetting techniques to ensure privacy and security. Through a Data as a Service solution (DaaS) you can address all the issues involved in a Temenos upgrade and significantly accelerating the pace of development and testing.
Support Agile and DevOps: Banks are increasingly adoting Agile and DevOps practices, so having chosen a tool that supports and complements these will significantly accelerate time to market for new products, built with quality and less risks.
Test Maintenance: Achieving sustainable test automation rates is critical. Your automated tests must be easily maintainable and have the ability to get automatic updates every time there is a change in the processes.
Risk Coverage Optimisation: By focusing and aligning testing to the top business risks, you ensure that your resources will be used efficiently and will be spending their efforts on what matters the most. The testing tool should be able to recommend which manual test cases should be automated in order to meet better results i.e higher risk coverage in less time, lower cost and with less people involved. The most important test cases will be executed first, enabling you to detect bugs for the critical business areas much earlier, taking advantage of a shift-left, risk-based testing approach to mitigate the risks and test changes more efficiently.
Impact Analysis: Temenos upgrades require continuous testing to identify and resolve potential impacts. By automating the impact analysis process and by automatically generating test scenarios, you are able to focus your efforts on what to test and what scenario to test it with.
End-to-end Business Testing: The tool should be able to test end-to-end your critical business process and systems, allowing your team to maximize their test coverage
Cloud & Technology Support: Having the ability to extend your testing efforts beyond Temenos applications, to other peripheral systems involved in your end-to-end transactions will make the difference and you’ll reap the benefits of a well-positioned and trusted testing strategy. Select a tool that has built with cloud in mind, as banks are gradually adopting the cloud due to lower infrastructure and maintenance costs.
API and Web services Testing: With Applications becoming more and more complex and connected, there is a need for API and Web Services Testing. The tool you choose should be able to support that and also Service Virtualisation capabilities.
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