Hackensack Meridian Health Automates 65% of PeopleSoft Testing to Keep Pace with Rapid Rollouts
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) is New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive health network, with 18 hospitals and more than 500 patient care locations. The network runs its financials and supply chain operations on PeopleSoft FSCM.
Industry
Healthcare
Service
Consulting
Solution
PeopleSoft Test Framework
HMH made a strategic decision to standardize PeopleSoft FSCM across its network, extending the system already running at Hackensack University Medical Center to the other large hospitals in the network.
The rollouts came fast. Palisades Medical Center went live six months after planning began. Raritan Bay Medical Center followed a year later on the same six-month timeline, and the Home Care and Long-Term Care divisions went live in five. Each command center closed within a week of go-live. But every new rollout, and every PeopleSoft update behind it, had to be tested.
The Challenge
With five more hospitals scheduled to go live on PeopleSoft FSCM and new modules like Enterprise Grants being added to the footprint, HMH’s manual testing approach was straining under the load. Limited resources and time meant limited test coverage. Accurate results were hard to guarantee. Test documentation lived in piles of Excel-based manual scripts and test data. And the testing overhead discouraged the team from adopting PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) images as often as it wanted.
The Solution
HMH engaged Mythics to implement an automated testing solution built on the delivered PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) tools and PTF shell scripts, covering six FSCM modules. The solution automated standard business processes end-to-end, cutting testing time, reducing cross-module dependencies, and improving reporting. Mythics also delivered an archiving solution to archive Hackensack University Medical Center data predating 2000.
Services provided:
- PeopleSoft Test Framework Implementation Across Six FSCM Modules
- End-to-End Business Process Test Automation
- PTF Shell Script Development
- Data Archiving Solution
The Results
- 65% of testing automated. The PTF implementation delivered 30 automated end-to-end shell tests and 244 automated individual tests.
- Faster testing, faster adoption. Automated business processes reduced testing time, accelerated burndown, and cut cross-module dependencies, enabling the selective adoption strategy behind HMH’s aggressive standardization effort.
- Oracle recognized the automated testing solution as a 2021 PeopleSoft Innovator.
