Workday is highly flexible, allowing organizations to customize the platform to meet their specific needs. Making changes to the configuration might disrupt day-to-day operations by disrupting workflows, impeding important business processes (BPs), or introducing security risks. Regular testing is crucial to prevent configuration changes from disrupting Workday’s functionality.

In the case of Workday testing, keep in mind that it is not the same as testing traditional or bespoke software systems. This applies to both new and experienced users. The pre-built and quality-assured platform from Workday eliminates the extensive manual effort for Workday testing. Instead, test how your company has customized or altered Workday to fit specific business needs. This blog provides comprehensive guidance for developing and implementing an effective testing plan.

A quick review of workday update types

• Weekly Service Update: They occur every week

• Feature Release Delivery and Monthly/ Workday Spring Update (R1): They occur every year in March month

• Feature Release Delivery and Monthly/Workday Fall Update (R2): They occur every year in September month

Regression Testing: Run tests to ensure functionality, performance, and usability continue to work as planned. Regression tests can be executed whenever a system change occurs.

Weekly Updates: Workday provides weekly updates to your production environment, including fixes and minor additions. Please test these upgrades to ensure they have not affected your settings or integrations.

Biannual updates/feature releases: Workday upgrades occur six months apart and may include new or improved features and capabilities. Workday provides a five-week preview window to evaluate and test new features against existing configurations before rolling out updates.

The Challenge of Workday Updates

Workday’s Bi-annual releases offer interesting opportunities to explore new features and functionalities. The release phase might be challenging for teams due to increased testing workload.

Coordinating testing across many environments can be tough, and many organizations lack specialized testing teams, leaving functional SMEs to split their time and attention to test, which is insufficient for business needs. Additionally, if you’ve been tweaking Workday throughout the year, as many users do, your testing scripts are likely to be out of current.

It’s no surprise that many people find the idea of testing the Workday biannual release stressful. A robust testing plan may help your organization maximize the benefits of Workday’s new features and capabilities, resulting in improved operational efficiency and user experience.

Opkey simplifies workday update testing

Automation can be a big differentiator for Workday update testing. The ability to run extensive packs with predetermined results. Simply clicking a button reduces testing time to hours, improves accuracy, and allows SMEs to focus on exploring and integrating Workday’s new capabilities. The workday does not have to be stressful. Automation helps save time, resources, and expenses.

Opkey’s AI-powered test automation reduces update testing time from weeks to hours, allowing SMEs to fully utilize Workday’s new capability with each release. Opkey has assisted Workday clients in comprehensively testing business processes, eligibility criteria, security, reporting, and connectors. Our Workday testing experts have broad system expertise, enabling them to plan and conduct tests effectively.

Opkey’s testing platform can minimize hands-on effort during Workday updates by 90%, boost test coverage by 400%, and detect 200% more errors than manual testing.`