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The Top 10 ePOS Challenges for Christmas 2025, And How to Overcome Them This Festive Season

The festive season is the busiest and most critical trading period for retailers, extending beyond Christmas to include all the holidays, Boxing Day, New Year and more. ePOS systems are vital to delivering smooth, speedy checkouts and excellent customer experiences, yet many retailers face common challenges that threaten success during this peak season. Navigating a

Anna Mountford September 17, 2025

Retail

Visual Test Automation for ePOS Systems: Lessons from a Real Proof of Concept

Electronic Point of Sale (ePOS) systems sit at the centre of modern retail operations. However, testing these systems is rarely straightforward. With tightly integrated hardware, legacy technology and customer-facing interfaces, retail QA teams often struggle to manage rapid change while maintaining quality. At T-Plan, we delivered a successful proof of concept (PoC) for a major

Anna Mountford September 17, 2025

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Retail

Retail Test Automation for Peak Season Stability

Retail businesses face huge spikes in demand during the last quarter of the year, including Black Friday and Christmas. High volumes in-store and online test the limits of infrastructure. Any system failure, especially within EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) systems, risks lost revenue, poor customer experiences and lasting reputational damage. Retail IT Challenges During Busy

Anna Mountford September 10, 2025

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Healthcare

Clinical Trial Management Automation: How UI Testing and RPA Accelerate Pharma, Healthcare and Biotech

In pharma and biotech, speed to market and airtight compliance can mean the difference between delivering a life-saving treatment on time or facing months, sometimes years, of costly delays. Yet, even with advanced clinical trial management systems in place, data issues, integration failures, and workflow disruptions can derail timelines, inflate costs, and impact patient safety. Only 20% of clinical

Anna Mountford August 13, 2025

Healthcare

Delivering Reliable, Accessible Patient Portals with UI Test Automation

The Challenge Rolling out a hospital patient portal that works seamlessly across devices and platforms is not just a technical milestone, it is a critical service improvement. Patients need to be able to check test results, book appointments, and request repeat prescriptions quickly and securely. The complexity lies in ensuring the portal is accessible to

Anna Mountford August 13, 2025

Healthcare

Accelerating Pharmaceutical Submissions with RPA

The Challenge Preparing multi-country pharmaceutical submissions is a resource-intensive process. Even with experienced teams, the task of gathering data, formatting for different markets and regulatory regions, and ensuring consistency across hundreds of documents remains slow and labour-heavy. Manual handling increases the risk of inconsistencies and errors, which can lead to re-work, missed deadlines, and delayed

Anna Mountford August 13, 2025

Healthcare

Revolutionising the Healthcare Supply Chain: Why Automated Testing and RPA Are the Cure for Outdated Systems

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fragility of global healthcare supply chains was laid bare. From delayed vaccine distribution to shortages of critical medicines, bottlenecks revealed themselves at every stage. The truth is, while the science behind new treatments and technologies is advancing at remarkable speed, the systems designed to get these innovations

Anna Mountford August 12, 2025

Poll results: What’s your biggest testing headache in regulated environments?

Accounting

Why Slow Automation Adoption Is Still Holding Regulated Industries Back – and How to Fix It.

AI‑driven decision‑making and ever‑tighter release cadences promise faster value delivery. Yet for teams operating under the microscope of regulators, from defence and financial services to healthcare and critical infrastructure, the reality is more complex.

Anna Mountford August 5, 2025

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Banking

How Financial Services Can Reduce Testing Costs, Ensure Compliance and Automate Legacy Systems

In the financial services sector, staying ahead is not just about speed. It is about trust, security and meeting rigorous compliance standards. From global banks to emerging FinTech’s, organisations face relentless pressure to deliver seamless digital experiences while maintaining control over operational and regulatory risks. Yet with increasingly complex technology estates spanning web, mobile and

Anna Mountford July 15, 2025

The Top 10 ePOS Challenges for Christmas 2025, And How to Overcome Them This Festive Season

Visual Test Automation for ePOS Systems: Lessons from a Real Proof of Concept

Retail Test Automation for Peak Season Stability

Clinical Trial Management Automation: How UI Testing and RPA Accelerate Pharma, Healthcare and Biotech

Delivering Reliable, Accessible Patient Portals with UI Test Automation

Accelerating Pharmaceutical Submissions with RPA

Revolutionising the Healthcare Supply Chain: Why Automated Testing and RPA Are the Cure for Outdated Systems

Why Slow Automation Adoption Is Still Holding Regulated Industries Back – and How to Fix It.

How Financial Services Can Reduce Testing Costs, Ensure Compliance and Automate Legacy Systems

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