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What is Workday testing?
Testing Workday isn’t like testing legacy or bespoke software systems. The Workday platform comes prebuilt and is quality assured by the Workday team.
So when you are carrying out testing, you're not testing the software itself, you're testing the way your company has configured Workday for your own unique business needs.
Testing during your Workday deployment
The purpose of testing during your Workday deployment is to ensure that your project team has set up your system exactly as requested and that everything is fit for purpose, operating correctly, and ready for use by your workforce.
Testing is critical for highlighting areas for improvement, ensuring your configuration is the best it can be for launch.
Testing Workday after launch
Testing after go-live protects your configuration from human error and the unexpected. Post-launch, your teams continually modify your Workday system to meet your company’s needs as it changes shape, size, and ways of working. Testing should take place whenever changes are made, including:
- Changes you make: Like to business processes, Workday security permissions, and eligibility rules
- Changes third parties make: Like when integrated systems are added or undergo their own software updates.
- Changes Workday makes: Like the weekly and twice-yearly updates.
Top five tips for testing Workday
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Upskill SMEs: You need SMEs to carry out testing. Invest in your people as they know better than anyone if something is working right or wrong.
- Allocate resources: Testing can be intensive. Allocate the right amount of resourcing to cover the task at hand.
- Assign budget: Testing time means financial and opportunity costs can add up. Be one step ahead with your budget allocation.
- Use automation: Humans make mistakes, consider test automation to provide 100% accuracy for Workday testing confidence.
- Increase coverage: Time and resource limitations mean teams often resort to testing only what they can get to instead of what’s critical. Let automation do much more and take the pressure off.
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