Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Importance of Installation testing/ Installation test cases

During my xxxx Project I have been asked to install clean OS and oracle. I did the same during the oracle installation, I came across with some errors and I just skipped all those and completed my oracle installation. After that I was asked to install the application on that machine. I did the same and completed my full installation. Once the installation was completed, I performed a sanity to ensure that there is no major functionality breaking in the application. Unfortunately the major functionality in the application was breaking and we were not able to continue testing the application.

In fact this was the last build we were supposed to test for this release. We didn't have the bandwidth to re-install and test. All we did is, we went back to client and said that the build is breaking (the major functionality in the application is breaking) No client would be happy to take this feedback. Same was my client. In fact there was a slip from our end during the oracle installation. Finally we found that during our re-installation process. From there on we decided to have Installation test cases to ensure that nothing is slipped or missed during our installation process.

Installation test cases are the basic set of test cases where every testing team should have along with the functional test cases to ensure that the environment is up and running well.

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