Test Driven Payroll Software

Test Driven Payroll Software

*Develop a Scalable Payroll Application with Automated Testing

With complex business applications such as payroll software, developing new functionality is a challenge. Users formulate requirements and verify that they are met. While requirements are formulated using requirements engineering, verification is difficult. Manual testing is time consuming and error prone. Existing test systems are often high-maintenance, compute-intensive, and decoupled from requirements.

To enable automated testing of business cases, a unified data and processing model that is decoupled from the application is required. The Payroll Engine provides such a scalable test system.

Using JSON or programming, the behavior of business cases and employee payruns can be automatically tested. This also works for special cases such as retroactive mutations with back calculations or forecasts. Limit tests, for example, can be used to check for minimum wage compliance.

Tests are also an important tool in the development of the Payroll Engine regulations to ensure the expected functionality of a product or customer customization. Here, version-based regulation tests support release management.

Describing business cases through testing has enormous potential to significantly simplify and accelerate the development of business applications. This starts in the design phase, where the test serves as a working specification for the implementation and verifies the release of the feature. During subsequent customizations, testing ensures that the feature continues to function correctly.

During operation, tests are used to describe a failure and verify that the failure has been corrected. By considering the failure test in the future, a recurrence of the failure can be detected early. Monitoring systems can use the Payroll API to analyze operations and generate test logs.

Setting up a test system is costly, but very rewarding. The result is a lean and agile development process and continuously improving product quality. Requirements engineering benefits from documented and reusable tests.

Payroll becomes scalable in the sense that new functionality can be developed at an unprecedented pace.

Read more about Payroll Testing.