Better Regression Testing for Infor Releases

Infor CloudSuite’s constant evolution through bi-annual feature releases, monthly service updates, and critical patches helps businesses stay compliant and future-ready. But each release cycle also comes with risks: broken processes and integrations caused by insufficient testing before upgrading to Production can lead to costly downtimes.

This blog is based on Fortude’s recent webinar, Bridging Infor CloudSuite Testing with AI, and explores how Fortest, our test automation tool, helps Infor CloudSuite users simplify and streamline their testing approach. We unpack the Infor release lifecycle, highlight what can go wrong when testing is neglected, and share some real-world success stories.

Infor CloudSuite is designed to drive business growth, but to leverage its full potential, users must understand and prepare for the complexities of its ecosystem. Automated regression testing plays a vital role in ensuring system stability, catching bugs, and costly production outages.

Tools like Fortest bring significant value by enabling scalable, low-cost automated regression testing. For example, Fortest helped businesses successfully test during Infor’s April 2025 release, which included 67+ new feature toggles, 131 expiring toggles, and 29 immediate impact features, within a few hours. Manual testing for the same would have taken weeks.

Fortude’s ecosystem of solutions, including Charlie, our enterprise AI knowledge assistant, and various RPA-based accelerators, enhances the Infor CloudSuite experience. When combined with a rigorous testing strategy, they help businesses reduce risk and increase agility.

Infor’s release cadence requires proactive planning and customized testing:

• Service releases: Monthly updates that cover security, bug fixes, and compliance patches.
• Feature releases: Bi-annual updates introducing new functionalities, technical upgrades, and industry-specific enhancements.
• Supplementary releases: Ad hoc emergency patches addressing critical issues like system crashes (Severity 1 and 2).

A critical concept here is feature toggles:

• Enabled/disabled toggles: Can affect workflow functionality.
• Expired toggles: Need backward compatibility testing to avoid broken processes.
• Immediate toggles: Can impact operations in real time, risking revenue loss if untested.

Moreover, the time and resource requirements involved make manual testing impractical for organizations that need rapid turnaround, especially since, in our experience, key users and SMEs are often occupied with their day-to-day responsibilities.

Infor doesn’t test for your specific business processes, which is why automated, end-to-end regression testing through Fortest is critical, especially since confirmations, integrations, and customizations are unique to your business. Fortest combines QA expertise with deep Infor CloudSuite knowledge to deliver comprehensive integration testing, user journey validation, and data flow coverage. By identifying broken processes early, ensuring strong test coverage, and minimizing downtime risks, Fortest transforms testing from a bottleneck into a business enabler.