Presented at BLUEPRINT 4D 2022
Title: PeopleSoft Investment Strategy Update
Session ID: 107600

Join Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President at Oracle, as he announces the latest investments in PeopleSoft. See demonstrations of the most important features recently delivered and coming soon across the HCM and ERP applications. Learn what’s in the new PeopleTools 8.60 release and how you can capitalize on platform-wide enhancements to drive more value with your PeopleSoft applications. And find out how customers are running PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to cut operating costs and provide intelligent, autonomous management of their PeopleSoft environments. There’s a lot happening with PeopleSoft in 2022 – don’t miss this update on the investment strategy and overall product line.

PeopleSoft release 9.2 introduced a major change in the way that the system is kept up to date and extended with new functionality. The promise was greatly reduced effort and much more timely updates. Many organizations have not seen the benefits they expected. Mostly, this is driven from a view that PUM updates are mini upgrades, and the Selective Adoption message and process is not coming through. This webinar will focus on the full process of Selective Adoption (of which PUM updates are only a part) and provide strategies that will allow the update process to become more efficient through scheduling, planning, use of automated testing, and development strategies to minimize the impact of customizations. We will include thoughts around governance also. This should provide a strong structure to put in place that will drive down the effort involved in applying updates and will increase your internal users satisfaction with the system.

Speakers: William Cage (Bill), Saad Mohammed, and Vishal Kothari, ERPA

Hear about how both the State of North Dakota and the North Dakota University System streamlined their PeopleSoft Automated Testing operations by using PTF and Testing Grounds. Testing a PeopleSoft patch is usually a major undertaking for any organization. However, the State of North Dakota (ND State) and the North Dakota University System (NDUS) had the added complication of maintaining six separate pillars, including Campus Solutions, Financials, Human Capital Management, and Enterprise Learning. Staying current is no easy task, so ND State and NDUS teamed up with SpearMC to implement an automated testing solution that drastically lessened the burden on staff and improved defect identification. We will discuss how we implemented PeopleSoft Test Framework, where our Testing Grounds bolt-on fits into the equation, and how we are supporting their patching moving forward.

Speaker(s): Tarunraj Amuthan (Manager, Test Automation) and Randall Johnson (Vice President), SpearMC

Presented at RECONNECT Dive Deep 2021

Session ID: 101400

Join this open roundtable discussion to learn about PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) and how others are leveraging it! Come share how you and your organization are currently utilizing PTF or what you’re looking forward to implementing in the future.

Presented at RECONNECT Dive Deep 2021
Session ID: 100270

Join us for a PeopleSoft Test Framework and Testing Grounds demo. We will feature a case study of it’s successful implementation at the largest healthcare system in New Jersey. PeopleSoft Testing Grounds is a bolt-on extension to PTF built within the PeopleTools framework. It provides features aimed at addressing gaps in the PTF tool and enhancing it with additional features, to make the test execution and reporting process efficient. Features include:
•Standard PeopleSoft PIA Fluid User Interface
•Ability to review all available test scripts and end-to-end test scenarios
•Ability to create and execute new testing events
•Accept pre-defined variable test data or update values with user-defined variable data
•Print step-by-step test instructions for any script
•Kick off the testing event
•Review testing results at a summary or detail level
•Drill down to test evidence reports to evaluate test failures
•Provide test evidence reports for audit compliance

Objectives:
•Demo PTF Testing Grounds. The Testing Grounds is an ecosystem of tools that SpearMC has built to fill gaps in PTF testing and make PTF more approachable for functional users.
•I will discuss a few agile concepts that should be applied to TAAS engagements. This will be followed by specific agile issues and tips when building test automation with the PeopleSoft Test Framework.
•Finally, we'll look at how Jira by Atlassian can be used to keep our projects agile.How can we leverage Atlassian Jira to keep our TaaS projects agile?

Presented by:
Tarunraj Amuthan, SpearMC
Randall Johnson, SpearMC