IFS Automated Testing: Simplifying IFS Cloud Testing with Mahara

Keeping IFS Cloud up to date helps organisations access new capabilities, improvements and innovations. However, every update also requires businesses to verify that their existing processes continue to work as expected.

IFS automated testing is a way to automate repetitive tests in IFS Cloud, helping organisations validate updates and business processes more efficiently and consistently.

For IFS teams, testing may involve critical business processes across areas such as:

When these tests are performed manually, employees may need to repeat the same actions after updates, configuration changes or system enhancements. This can take significant time and increase the risk of inconsistent testing.

With Platned Mahara, organisations can automate repetitive IFS Cloud tests and run them consistently. This can help teams:

In short, Mahara helps organisations simplify IFS Cloud testing by automating repetitive test activities and making it easier to validate that critical business processes continue to work after changes.

 

Why is IFS automated testing becoming more important?

 

IFS automated testing is becoming increasingly important because regular IFS Cloud updates require organisations to repeatedly verify that critical business processes continue to work correctly.

IFS Cloud is designed to support continuous innovation, with regular updates, enhancements and new capabilities. This means organisations need an effective way to test changes without relying entirely on repetitive manual testing.

 

Why does IFS Cloud require regular testing?

 

Every update or change to an IFS Cloud environment can potentially affect existing business processes. This is particularly important in complex environments that include:

Testing helps organisations confirm that these processes continue to operate as expected before changes are introduced into a production environment.

 

What are the challenges of manual IFS Cloud testing?

 

Traditional manual testing can become time-consuming when the same business processes need to be tested repeatedly. Common challenges include:

How does IFS automated testing help?

 

IFS automated testing helps organisations overcome these challenges by converting repeatable business processes into automated test cases. These test cases can then be reused whenever an organisation needs to validate an IFS Cloud update or change.

This approach can help organisations make testing more consistent, reduce repetitive manual work and improve their ability to validate critical business processes over time.

 

What is Mahara?

 

Mahara from Platned is an automated testing solution designed specifically for IFS Cloud. It helps organisations create, run and repeat automated tests for important IFS Cloud business processes without requiring users to write complex automation scripts.

Unlike generic testing tools that may require extensive configuration to work with an ERP environment, Mahara is designed around IFS Cloud processes and the way IFS users interact with the application.

Mahara allows users to record business processes and turn those recordings into repeatable automated test cases. This means people who understand the business process can contribute to test creation and maintenance, rather than relying entirely on specialist developers or technical teams.

The result is a more accessible approach to IFS automated testing that can involve both business and IT teams.

 

How does Mahara automate IFS Cloud testing?

 

Manual testing often requires users to repeat the same steps across different scenarios. For example, a user might need to:

When these steps need to be performed across many business processes, the testing effort can quickly become substantial.

Mahara allows these repeatable processes to be recorded and automated, so test cases can be executed without a user manually performing every step each time.

Teams can create a reusable library of automated tests and run multiple test cases when they need to validate an IFS Cloud update, configuration change, patch or business process.

This allows users to spend less time repeating routine test steps and more time reviewing results, investigating exceptions and applying business knowledge where it matters most.

 

No-code testing in IFS Cloud

 

No-code testing allows users to create automated tests without writing traditional automation scripts.

One of the challenges with test automation is that maintaining a large number of scripts can create an additional workload for IT and development teams. If every test requires technical expertise to create or update, business users may have limited involvement in the testing process.

Mahara takes a no-code approach to IFS automated testing. Users can record the processes they want to test and use those recordings to create automated test cases.

This can make test automation more accessible to people who understand the business process but do not have specialist programming or test automation skills.

For organisations with complex IFS Cloud environments, this approach can also support a broader testing strategy by making it easier for business and IT teams to contribute to the creation and maintenance of automated tests.

 

Mahara’s AI-driven self-healing work

 

AI-driven self-healing helps automated tests adapt when certain application elements change.

IFS Cloud environments can evolve over time as organisations introduce updates, configuration changes and other improvements. Changes to an application’s interface or elements used by an automated test can sometimes cause a test to fail even when the underlying business process is still valid.

Traditionally, a failed automated test may require someone to investigate the failure, update the test and run it again.

Mahara includes AI-driven self-healing capabilities that can help address certain test execution issues automatically. When an applicable issue is detected, Mahara can attempt to resolve it and continue or rerun the affected test.

This can reduce the amount of manual intervention required to maintain automated tests as the IFS Cloud environment changes.

 

How can Mahara support continuous IFS Cloud updates?

 

Regular IFS Cloud updates make repeatable testing an important part of maintaining confidence in business processes.

Mahara helps organisations create a reusable library of automated tests that can be run whenever testing is required.

Instead of rebuilding a testing process for every update or change, teams can reuse existing test cases to validate critical workflows. This can support a more consistent approach to:

For organisations planning an IFS Cloud upgrade, automated testing can also provide a repeatable way to validate critical processes before and after the transition.

Over time, this can help move testing from a largely manual, periodic activity towards a more continuous part of the IFS Cloud lifecycle.

 

Where can IFS automated testing be used?

 

Mahara can be used to automate a wide range of repetitive IFS Cloud testing scenarios.

Testing scenario	How automated testing can help
IFS Cloud updates	Validate important business workflows after an update or release.
Regression testing	Check that existing processes continue to work after changes.
User acceptance testing	Automate repetitive test steps so users can focus on business validation and decision-making.
Configuration changes	Validate processes affected by changes to the IFS Cloud environment.
Business process testing	Repeatedly test important end-to-end workflows.
Patch testing	Check critical processes following patches and fixes.
IFS Cloud upgrades	Reuse automated tests to validate important processes during an upgrade.

 

The objective is not simply to automate as many tests as possible. Effective IFS automated testing focuses on the processes where repeatability, consistency and test coverage provide the greatest value.

 

Build confidence into IFS Cloud change

 

Organisations need to evolve their IFS Cloud environment while maintaining confidence that critical business processes will continue to work as expected.

Testing is an essential part of that process, but repeatedly performing the same manual test steps can consume valuable time.

Platned Mahara helps organisations automate repeatable IFS Cloud testing by allowing users to record processes, create reusable test cases and run automated tests when required. Its no-code approach can make test automation accessible to both business and technical users, while AI-driven self-healing capabilities can help reduce the effort involved in maintaining automated tests.

Combined with Platned’s wider IFS services, Mahara provides organisations with a more repeatable approach to testing as their IFS Cloud environment evolves.

 

The goal: less repetitive testing, more confidence in change

 

IFS Cloud is designed to evolve. Your testing approach should be able to evolve with it.

With IFS automated testing through Platned Mahara, organisations can automate repetitive testing, improve consistency and build greater confidence when making changes to IFS Cloud.

Discover Platned Mahara and explore a more efficient approach to IFS Cloud testing.