End-to-End Testing

June 18, 2024

Workday consultants were on campus last week, working with DePauw to complete end-to-end testing. End-to-end testing is another set of tests within Workday, where subject matter experts in Human Resources, Finance, and the Business Office work through each process to validate that the data that has been imported is correct and that the system is working as it should be. Additionally, testing is conducted to validate that functionality and data are accurate in how the DePauw community will utilize Workday.

End-to-end testing is a pivotal and thorough part of the Workday implementation. Having just completed the data build validation, this testing rigorously confirms that the system configuration and associated data were converted correctly within Workday. Even the simplest process has multiple touchpoints, each of which is meticulously tested. This comprehensive testing ensures that we have accounted for each step and are on track to achieve the anticipated outcome when we go live in October 2024.

We will be in the end-to-end testing phase for the next several weeks until we embark on the next phase of the Workday implementation, which will be parallel payroll testing.