Test strategy alignment scenario
The end-of-fiscal-year blackout period for the organization is March and April. As a result, business users will be busy with year-end closing and reporting tasks. The business has determined that user acceptance testing (UAT) will be conducted in February, prior to the fiscal year-end, to ensure user availability for testing end-to-end scenarios. According to the project plan, final conference room pilot (CRP) testing is scheduled for May so that, prior to go-live (which is targeted for June), the company can complete applicable performance tuning and optimization.
Pattern - Implement iterative data migration cycles
The business should consider that the fiscal year-end closing in the legacy system will change the following components:
- Configurations that need to be incorporated in the golden configuration environment
- Master and transactional data changes that need to be accounted for in the sandbox environments
Anti-patterns - Implement iterative data migration cycles
The business should avoid the following bad practices (anti-patterns) when implementing iterative data migration cycles:
- Conducting UAT on demo data or test data
- Lacking effective planning based on business process milestones