Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 17 · Quarterly updates and VBCS
Testing in the update window
Lesson 168 of 176 · 3 min
The ORDER ACROSS ENVIRONMENTS, HOW MUCH TIME YOU GET, and WHAT TO DO WHEN A DEFECT APPEARS WITH TWO DAYS LEFT. The window exists because non-production environments are patched before production, and it is the only period in which you can see the future and still change something. THE ORDER IS THE OPPORTUNITY: TEST FIRST, PRODUCTION LATER. So the whole plan is to run Lesson 4's pack against the patched test environment while production is still on the current release. HOW MUCH TIME YOU GET IS FIXED, PUBLISHED, AND USUALLY SHORTER THAN PEOPLE ASSUME. Which is why the pack has to be an hour rather than a day — the window is not the constraint on quality, the pack's size is. AND THE FIRST DAY IS WORTH MORE THAN THE LAST, WHICH IS THE PART TO ACT ON. A defect found on day one has the whole window for a…
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