Epicor Eclipse Testing

Heather Brooks

Website: https://www.epicor.com/en-us/erp-systems/eclipse/

Epicor Eclipse™ is designed to cater to the specific requirements of Electrical, Plumbing, PVF, and HVAC distributors. It is based on the idea that business systems should be tailored to the way distributors work, while also promoting best practices in distribution processes to reduce supply chain costs, boost sales and profit margins, and enhance customer service.

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, effective integration between you, your partners, and your customers is increasingly important. For your business system to be responsive to these needs, it must easily communicate with other in-house applications, websites, and web content. The Epicor Eclipse API is a potent web-services tool that connects your business with the world by offering a new intermediate layer, making Eclipse data accessible to other applications without compromising its application’s integrity.

Enhance Your Entire Distribution Business with Eclipse
Eclipse offers tools to significantly boost productivity and refine processes, improving distributors’ overall business effectiveness. It includes a distinctive, intuitive user interface, simplifying customer interactions during transactions. The system helps eliminate communication breakdowns within your organization by facilitating task automation and digital to-do lists. Employees are kept informed about crucial matters with self-populating, self-cleaning work queues — such as sales orders that may be delayed due to a credit hold, affecting an unaware customer. This enables employees to focus on the customer, accomplish more within the software, and ultimately, raise customer satisfaction levels.

Eclipse is a comprehensive business management solution offering extensive functionality for critical business processes such as:

• CRM
• Order Management
• Commercial Job Management
• Mobile Showroom
• e-Commerce
• Inventory Management
• Purchasing
• Wireless Warehouse Management
• Financials
• Business Intelligence and Analytics
• Document Imaging

For the implementation of Epicor Eclipse, you will encounter several complex alterations that adjust the system's default behavior to better suit your processes. Therefore, when rolling out and updating this implementation, it's essential to ensure that any previously made modifications still function as expected.

Typically, the process begins with manual validation, whereby certain assigned individuals scrutinize existing functionality to ensure it operates correctly.

However, as the validation volume increases, you may find that the process becomes time-consuming, impeding progress and efficiency. Moreover, the human element introduces the risk of errors and the potential for significant issues to be overlooked.

This is where the need for an automated system to replace manual validation activities becomes apparent. Automation can significantly reduce the time and resources spent on validation, enhancing its accuracy and efficiency. Nonetheless, this process presents its own challenges:

• First, there's the issue of constant updates and test maintenance. Epicor Eclipse is regularly updated with new versions, which could cause your test automation to fail due to subtle changes introduced in the new release. This could render a large portion of your tests obsolete, thus undermining the very purpose of test automation.
• Second, there's the requirement to hire engineers capable of building automation. These highly-skilled professionals can be challenging to find and represent a substantial investment for your organization.

Fortunately, there's a solution: testRigor. testRigor is a revolutionary human emulator that understands English and conducts tests from the perspective of an end-user. This innovative approach to automation allows your organization to simultaneously achieve multiple key objectives:

1. Enable your existing employees to build test automation, regardless of their technical proficiency. As testRigor is an AI-driven, no-code solution, setting up the environment and building tests becomes a much more seamless and efficient process compared to traditional testing tools.
2. Ensure your automation system is robust enough to withstand the release of new versions. Unlike other systems, testRigor does not rely on the detailed specifics of the implementation. This results in unparalleled stability, saving countless hours each week.
3. Enhance visibility within the team, as anyone will be able to understand the tests and contribute if needed.