An Insight into Oracle Fusion Patching and Testing Readiness

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An Insight into Oracle Fusion Patching and
Testing Readiness
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An Insight into Oracle Fusion Patching and
Testing Readiness
Traditionally in the Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC), a patch is a fix, a quick repair
job, or a piece of programming designed to
resolve functionality issues, improve security,
and add new features. Throughout its lifetime,
the software gets frequent errors called bugs
which produce unexpected results, and a patch is
an immediate fix to those problems.  Applying
modifications to the Oracle Fusion Applications
environment is called Oracle Patching. We need
patching to solve security vulnerabilities,
improve performance, fix bugs, and add new
features. Continuous patch application minimizes
incidents where bugs are encountered. Oracle
Fusion Patching Tools   OPatch It is an Oracle
utility tool that helps organizations with the
process of applying patches to Oracles software
and rolling back.   FASPOT FASPOT is used to
arrange the installation of the P4FA bundle
patches. It has certain guided preparation steps
to follow while applying bundle
patches. 
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An Insight into Oracle Fusion Patching and
Testing Readiness

• Monthly Updates from Oracle Optional 
• Oracle notifies all its partners service admins
  about the updates included in each patch. For
  minor patch releases, Oracle typically provides a
  one-week advance notification before patching the
  test environment, and for major update releases,
  Oracle provides a two-month advance
  notification. 
• A document with the detailed information is
  shared with the admin informing about the
  released patches and the same get uploaded on the
  Oracle Cloud Release Readiness website. The
  information on the website includes
  announcements, new features, changes in
  functional behaviour, and bug fixes. 
• Create a patch tracking sheet 
• Analyze the patch impact on the applications and
  create a test plan accordingly. 
• Types of patches to plan and apply 
• Impact assessment of the patches 
• Need help? Schedule a discussion with our ERP
  Testing experts to get more insights into oracle
  fusion patching and testing readiness.  
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