Re: Test environments (was: upgrade)

This is a multipart message in MIME format.
--
[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
I think you have a valid point,  I am not sure how many people actually do
thorough testing on their test machines.
Took me years to get them to stop putting new versions of payroll on the
production machine, and then if it worked ok, put it on the development
machine.  Their mentality of the development machine was that it was just
a place to compile code - not test.  And if it did need a few weeks/months
of testing, how do you put anything into production for the old system in
that time period - duplicate more libraries?

Workload may be harder to handle but duplicating programs and data is not.
 Before we upgraded our production box to handle Domino and Tivoli Storage
Manager it was a 200GB machine.  Our development machine is a 337GB
machine.  With testing, training and source, you need more disk.

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
08/27/2002 10:26 AM
Please respond to midrange-l


        To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
        cc:
        Fax to:
        Subject:        Test environments (was: upgrade)


>I think more people may take advantage
>of test environments as this capability
>[LPAR on partial processors] becomes more
>widespread.

I wonder how many people actually USE a test environment.  All of our
customers set one up (so they can test drive the new version of our
software
before putting it into production.)  But they also don't run parallel for
any length of time either.  If OS upgrades work the same way (run a small
subset of your business work on it), I wonder how many people actually
find
problems this way?

I mean, if I think that V5R2 might have 'issues' with my application,
workload, data or configuration, wouldn't I have to duplicate the
application, workload, data and configuration in order to test them?
  --buck
_______________________________________________
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.