Improving Oracle Retail Merchandising System and Oracle Retail Sales Audit using Functional and Software Security Assurance Testing

Abstract

In this ever-changing technology world, being competitive and successful is important. This competition results in organizations to improve their short software development process timelines to produce high quality and efficient software. Various testing types are performed on product before it is released to the market. Earlier testing was considered a process that occur after software development is completed. But now testing is being performed at every phase of Software Development Life Cycle. Due to increase in security attacks organizations are performing software security assurance testing on their software along with functional testing. Manual and automated testing are performed to ensure the efficiency of software. With time organizations are moving towards automated testing. Scripts and tools are used and trusted more than manual testing. Tools used are generic tools and can’t depict the functionality of applications. Thus the reports generated contains a lot of false positive errors. Inspecting these false positives wastes a lot of time of developers. Thus it is important to not depend on automated testing alone. Manual testing must also be performed. Security testing should be performed by security experts manually as well as with tools. This will increase the efficiency of software and thus increase the revenue of organization as maintenance cost will be less. Retail Merchandising System is one of Oracle’s Retail product which deals in the functions like item management, replenishment, inventory management etc. Due to shifting to cloud micro services are being implemented and delivered to the customers. For auditing of retail operations Oracle provides Retail Sales Audit to the customers which can be integrated to the RMS. All the pricing related information that flows between RMS and ReSA is provided by Retail Pricing System. The above said testing i.e. functional and security testing was performed on two of the products RMS and ReSA to make sure the performance of the software is acceptable.