Sif Release Readiness Checklist - Ramsons

Two sprints before feature freeze (200) 

Action

Responsible

Status

  • Update Features' statuses
  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature and escalate to stakeholders
  • Clean up Poppy backlog 
Charlotte, Product owner

Done

  • All user stories tied to features should be written and estimated. 
Charlotte, Product ownerDone

Testing

  • Identify features that require e2e tests 
  • Identify features that require Karate tests
Charlotte, product owner together with Niels Erik as Dev Lead

TBD 

  • Conduct user acceptance testin
  • Charlotte, as Product owner work together with Felix, and Antje from the Sif team
  • ID devops deliver all new code and settings as docker containers to be installed in GBVs local environment
UAT environment: Minerva3 and more
  • Conduct or create user stories for performance/load testing. See
N/A-
  • Document Potential Risks and Risk Mitigation Plan
N/A-

One sprint before feature freeze (201)

Action

Responsible

Status

  • Update Features' statuses
  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature and escalate to stakeholders
  • Clean up Poppy backlog
Charlotte, Product OwnerDone
  • Prepare data for Bugfest
  • Create user stories for Kitfox that outline your needs and instructions
  • Please consider how to test long lists/tables 
N/A-

Migration/module upgrade documentation checklist 

Migration Plan

  • Step by Step instructions for module upgrade
  • New Infrastructure: N/A 
  • Config Changes:
  • Schema Changes: JIRA issues created 
  • Data Migration:

Migration Testing

  • What are the configuration Changes?
  • What are the schema Changes?
  • How do we test?
DevOps team at Index data and GBV

Charlotte has written up DEVOPS tickets.




Any breaking changes? 

N/ANo

Re-Indexing for release upgrade? For bugfest Poppy?

N/ANo
  • Add release notes 
Charlotte, as product owner together with Felix and Antje 


Accessibility Testing

--
  • Conduct or create user stories for performance/load testing. See Types of tests
N/A-

Document Potential Risks and Risk Mitigation Plan

Risks:

N/A

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Feature freeze sprint (202)

Action

Responsible

Status

  • Update Features' statuses
  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature and escalate to stakeholders
Charlotte as Product OwnerDone
  • Prepare data for Bugfest
    • Create user stories for Kitfox that outline your needs and instructions 
      • FWIW - I think settings needs to be cleaned
    • Please consider how to test long lists/tables 
N/A-
  • Add release notes 
    • Include any previous release notes that still relate to the release 
    • flag any known items with the label  known-issue-<<release>>

Charlotte, as Product Owner, together with Felix and Antje 

Felix will do demo for the purpose of Oleksii Petrenko's mega slide deck

In progress

Accessibility Testing

--
  • Conduct or create user stories for performance/load testing. See
Types of tests
N/A-

Sprint before Bugfest (aka Business Acceptance Testing) period (204)

Action

Responsible

Status

Action

Responsible

Status

  • Update Features' statuses
  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature.
Charlotte, Product Owner
  • User stories: update Release field for those stories/bugs/tasks/etc that will not be done for the release. 
Charlotte, Product Owner
  • Generate Release Artifacts (see Orchid) and link to Release notes 
Sif team
  • Add release notes 
    • Include any previous release notes that still relate to the release 
    • flag any known items with the label  known-issue-<<release>>
Charlotte, Product owner
Sif team

Team meets with Kitfox to review upgrade instructions. 

Team's accept Bugfest build. 

  • Teams must conduct smoke tests to verify key functionality works as expected BEFORE Bugfest is made available to community 
  • Teams must document 
    • App/module not ready for testing 
    • Issues yet to be resolved
  • Deployment verification? 
N/A-
Regression testing? 

  • Conduct performance/load testing. See
Types of tests


Sprint before GO-Live (205)

Action

Responsible

Status

Action

Responsible

Status

  • Update Features' statuses
  • There should be no at-risk feature 
Charlotte, Product Owner
  • Add/Review release notes 
    • Include any previous release notes that still relate to the release 
    • flag any known items with the label  known-issue-<<release>>
Charlotte, Product owner, and Niels Erik as Dev Lead
  • Complete remaining performance/load testing. See
Types of tests
Charlotte, Product Owner writes user stories. TBD who will conduct. 

Go-Live sprint

Action

Responsible

Status

  • Teams must conduct smoke tests to verify key functionality works as expected
Sif Team

Testing: All Karate tests and e2e tied to release functionality should be done and running 

Sif Team
  • Add/Review release notes 
    • Include any previous release notes that still relate to the release 
    • flag any known items with the label  known-issue-<<release>>
Charlotte as Product owner