P-052900: Testing Less, Delivering More: How JD Edwards Customers Are Transforming Projects with Automation

This session was presented at INFOCUS 2026.

Testing is often one of the largest contributors to the cost, timeline, and risk of JD Edwards projects. Whether it’s supporting your Continuous Innovation journey, applying ESUs, upgrading tools releases, deploying customizations, or preparing for major application upgrades, organizations frequently rely on manual testing processes that are difficult to scale, document, and repeat. At the same time, business users are increasingly stretched thin. Subject matter experts are asked to repeatedly execute the same regression tests, project teams struggle to validate changes efficiently, and IT leaders face growing pressure to deliver projects faster while maintaining quality and audit readiness. In this session, attendees will hear from current JD Edwards customers about how they are leveraging automated testing to support a wide range of initiatives, including Continuous Innovation adoption, ESU validation, Tools and Application upgrades, custom development projects, security changes, integrations, and ongoing system maintenance. Through real-world customer experiences and lessons learned, we will explore how organizations are creating reusable automated test suites that validate end-to-end business processes, reduce dependency on manual testing, and provide greater confidence when deploying changes into production. We’ll discuss practical strategies for identifying automation candidates, building reusable test assets, supporting upgrades and ongoing maintenance, validating security and business processes, and creating audit-ready documentation. The session will also highlight common challenges organizations face when transitioning from manual to automated testing and the lessons learned along the way. Whether your organization is just beginning to evaluate test automation or is looking to expand an existing program, this session will provide actionable insights for reducing project risk while improving testing quality across the JD Edwards lifecycle.

Speakers: Tyler Price, Lee Balsom, Developing World Systems (DWS)