NZ’s largest business transformation: put to the test with Assurity Cloud.

With DPS, this goal is accelerated, with shortened development cycles and time to market. Clarke confirms that third parties are equipped to build and test their systems in parallel with IR’s teams and can conduct their assurance programmes simultaneously and independently. “Across internal, integration, and full business function testing, DPS provides an extensive set of assets available to partners to build right and test right. That gives us velocity with quality, resulting in an edge on testing and quality assurance at large.”
Multiple parallel parties have already tested their systems simultaneously, far superseding the previously necessary ‘one on one’ approach. Hourigan explains that Self-service integration testing makes this crucial process easy for IR partners – and for IR itself. “The advent of self-service testing technology has enabled significant reductions on partnership testing engagement and reduced the complexity of the testing itself, avoiding the reliance on backend systems.”
There’s hard data to support claims of efficiency gains. Firewall changes have shifted from days to minutes to enable customers to engage in testing.
Third-party integrations are up to four times faster because service consumers are empowered to identify and eliminate errors before connecting their systems with those of IR. Additionally, the duration of integration testing is condensed from weeks to days.
The deployment of new tax products is inevitably accompanied by a high volume of change internal to IR; with DPS, continuous testing captures issues that would impact external systems, de-risking the interdependent systems of partners by eliminating issues before they reach production.
As the DPS moves towards business as usual, he says IR is discovering that as it makes changes in accordance with the business transformation programme, pushing updates and new functionality out to partners is simplified. “We’ve got economies of scale for testing. New features are consumable to everyone at the same time, and everyone can test and evaluate simultaneously. That’s a big gain on the previous ‘point to point’ approach, where each partner would engage individually.”
As the services offered through IR’s transformed systems multiply, he says the revenue authority is seeing high levels of value. “We get the assurance necessary without being overwhelmed by testing overhead.” Automated, self-service testing is a lasting feature for IR, he notes. “With systems development, it is never the end. In the world of IR, one thing is certain: change will happen. Self-service testing with DPS makes changes so much faster, easier and more precise.”