Special power requirements

Specific versions of other supporting software

Restricted use of the system during testing

Staffing and skills

The staffing depends on the kind of tests defined. In this section you should 

define the persons and the education and training needed for executing the test 

case.

Responsibilities

Who is in charge? This issue includes all areas of the plan. Here are some 

examples:

Setting risks

Selecting features to be tested and not tested

Setting overall strategy for this level of plan

Ensuring all required elements are in place for testing

Providing for resolution of scheduling conflicts, especially if testing is done on 

the production system

Who provides the required training?

Who makes the critical  go/no  decisions for items not covered in the test 

plans?

9.1.3  Test phases

Series of well designed tests should validate all stages of the migration process. 

A detailed test plan should describe all the test phases, scope of the tests, 

validation criteria, and specify the time frame. To ensure that the applications 

operate in the same manner as they did in the source database, the test plan 

should include data migration, functional and performance tests, as well as other 

post migration assessments.

Data migration testing

The extracting and loading process entails conversion between source and 

target data types. The migrated database should be verified to ensure that all 

data is accessible, and was imported without any failure or modification that can 

cause applications to function improperly.

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