Most organisations don’t set out to automate their Dynamics 365 testing — they get pushed into it, usually after a manual process starts visibly breaking down. Here are five signs that point that way.

1. Releases are slipping because of testing

If regression testing routinely falls to the bottom of the priority list and delays go-live dates, the process — not the people — is the problem.

2. Your best people are stuck testing instead of working

Regression testing needs someone who understands the business process, which usually means your most experienced staff are the ones doing it manually — instead of the higher-value work only they can do.

3. You can’t say for certain everything was tested

If confirming test coverage means asking someone to remember what they checked, there’s no reliable record — and no way to prove it when something goes wrong.

4. Every Product Quality Update feels like a fire drill

With up to nine PQUs a year on top of four One Version waves, an environment that treats each update as a scramble is running on borrowed time.

5. Issues are being caught in production, not before it

This is the clearest sign of all. By the time a bug reaches production, regression testing has already failed to do its job — automated or not.

If two or more of these sound familiar

It’s worth a conversation. Testing by XPLUS automates 80%+ of regression testing on average, with most teams up and running within an hour — implemented, and supported, by Bizsystems.