Curiosity and Coforge present - Oracle FLEXCUBE: De-risk upgrades and migrations in core banking with rigorous test automation

© Curiosity Software Ireland Ltd. 2021
Oracle FLEXCUBE
De-risk upgrades and migrations in core banking
with rigorous test automation
July 13th 2021
James Walker
Director of Technology, Curiosity.
James.Walker@Curiosity.Software
@CuriositySoft
George Blundell
Technical Analyst, Curiosity.
George.Blundell@Curiosity.Software
@CuriositySoft
Steve Fisher
AVP Financial Services Sales, Coforge
Steve.Fisher@Coforgetech.com
@Coforge_Tech

De-risk upgrades and migrations in core
banking with rigorous test automation
1. The business value of rigorous testing for FLEXCUBE
2. Rapid, rigorous and repeatable automation for FLEXCUBE
3. Demo: Remove testing barriers to upgrades and migrations
4. Q&A and next steps

The business value of rapid
and rigorous testing for
Oracle FLEXCUBE
Why should we care about de-risking FLEXCUBE upgrades and migrations?

• CEO
Resigned
• Huge
reputational
damage
• Total cost
estimated at
330M GBP
• 80,000
Customers
lost
1.9 Million
customers
locked out
Customers
could see
others
accounts
Recovery
patchy and
gaffe
strewn
Accounts
Showing
incorrect
balances
TSB – 2018 Core Banking Failure
Migration from Lloyds to Sabadell – April 2018

TSB had planed for a seven month period prior to Go Live, following the completion of
Functional Testing, when Live Proving and Non-functional Testing would be carried out…
However the delays in Functional Testing meant that it ran in parallel with Non-functional
Testing, and did not finish until shortly before Go Live.
IT failures at UK financial services firms increased by a massive 138% in the past year with
failed IT changes being the leading cause, according to research from the Financial
Conduct Authority (FCA).

Customer Centricity
Santander
• Simple Personal Fair
RBS
• Do the right thing
Starling
• Change the way you bank

Customer Centricity
Use of Chatbots
Help customer
set goals
AI Powered
virtual assistant
Single App
Smart Branch
My phone is my
wallet

Automated Testing
Key Business Benefits
Reliability Risk Speed Cost

AGILE / DevOps
Role of automated testing
Release 1 Release 2 Release 3

Rapid, rigorous and
repeatable test automation
for core banking systems
5 reasons Oracle FLEXCUBE is the perfect fit for model-based testing

What do we mean by MBT?
Scans and
Recordings
Test Cases
BPMN
diagrams
BDD
Scenarios
Business
Requirements
Reactive Model
of the system
Find / Make / Allocate Test Data
Run Results
Tests
New
Iteration
 Perfect sets of tests
 Fast Maintenance
 Reusable Components
 Move faster
 Deliver with confidence
Test Automation
Test Automation

Model-based testing for FLEXCUBE
Find and
Make Data
“Living Documentation”
Automated Test Generation
FLEXCUBE
Universal Banking
Stay up-to-date with
the latest FLEXCUBE
innovation
Identify the impact of
change on existing tests
Generate optimized
tests and data
Identify change impacts on
custom configurations
Execute rigorous tests
against the FLEXCUBE UI
Push rich test data through
the FLEXCUBE API
UI Scanner
Reusable
automation modules
Import
- Tests
- Stories
- Data
New releases or
Migrations

5 reasons Oracle
FLEXCUBE is the perfect fit
for model-based testing

1. A componentised architecture
A componentized
architecture
Components assemble a
finite number of screens or
processes into end-to-end
scenarios.
Scanning and modelling
each component creates
a library of reusable
assets
Assembling flows visually
rapidly generates
optimized tests each
component.
Accounts Deposits
Assets Microfinance
Trade finance Investments
Support Core services
Operational support services
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
Reusability unlocks speed and testing agility. Automation is faster the more you do it.

2. Test complexity: rigorous testing
How many steps are involved in making
a single loan?
How many inputs are in each screen?
What about negative tests?
How many tests does it take to test a
loans module?
Scenario 1 …
Scenario 10,000?
• The complexity of end-to-end scenarios leads to a vast number
of possible tests.
• This grows with every integrated process or technology -
exhaustive testing is impossible.
• Testing must reduce test volume, without introducing negative
risk to upgrades and migrations.
• Manual and unsystematic test design is no match for this
complexity – it’s beyond human comprehension!
Automated test generation algorithms overcome FLEXCUBE
complexity, “rightsizing” testing based on time and risk.

3. Test complexity: Rapid testing
• There’s no time to create every test case and script needed for rigorous FLEXCUBE testing.
• Manual test creation leads to impossible maintenance requirements, as tests must be checked and
updated after each upgrade.
• It’s magnitudes faster to create
complete test suites at the click of a
button.
• Updating the flows then maintains all
the linked test cases, script and
data.
Don’t let testing bottlenecks delay
critical upgrades or migrations. Hit
“generate” to create tests and data.

4. “Living documentation” trumps a
lack of niche knowledge across teams
• Up-to-date “Living Documentation” is a by-product of rigorous FLEXCUBE testing.
• The intuitive flowcharts distribute FLEXCUBE knowledge across teams
• They remove the need for testers, developers and BAs to master deep technical knowledge of
FLEXCUBE parameters when working with surrounding systems.
• This “future proofs” core banking.
• It allows teams to innovate, without
worrying that they will break critical
systems.
FLEXCUBE
Universal Banking “Living documentation” BA Developer
Tester
Reliably innovate
integrated systems.

5. Integrated Test Data Automation
allays compliance concerns
• FLEXCUBE houses sensitive data that should not be moved to less secure test environments.
• Masking data or generating new data can create substantial testing bottlenecks.
• Complex data must link seamlessly across end-to-end scenarios as otherwise tests fail.
• “Just in time” test data allocation produces complete, consistent and compliant data on-the-fly.
• Reusing test data utilities in flows passes
parameters from one process to the next,
creating consistent “data journeys”.
This alleviates compliance concerns and
bottlenecks associated test data delays.

All the value of FLEXCUBE innovation,
with reduced negative risk.
1. Testing bottlenecks don’t block critical upgrades and migrations
‒ Flowcharts automate potentially slow and repetitive test case and data creation.
‒ Flowcharts minimise maintenance time – updating models updates all artefacts generated from them.
2. Optimised test generation “de-risks” upgrades and migrations
‒ Targeted test generation overcomes massive system complexity.
3. Living documentation future proofs core banking systems
‒ Distributed teams have the knowledge they need to reliably develop integrated systems.
4. Test Data Automation mitigates against the risk of non-compliance with data privacy regulations
‒ Integrated “Test Data Automation” minimises data frustrations, bottlenecks, and compliance concerns.

Demo: Remove testing
barriers to upgrades and
migrations
Automate and optimise testing processes that block core banking innovation

Demo

Questions and Discussion

Carry on the conversation?
• Book a demo and discussion with George!
• Contact Steve.Fisher@Coforgetech.com to arrange a free day’s
consulting from Coforge!
• Try Test Modeller. Visit Testmodeller.io for a free trial and online tutorials.
• Follow Curiosity Software on LinkedIn and @CuriositySoft on Twitter for
resources and news.
• Follow Coforge on LinkedIn and @Coforge_Tech on Twitter.

Thank you
James.Walker@Curiosity.Software
George.Blundell@Curiosity.Software
Steve.Fisher@Coforgetech.com

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