Thor Release Readiness Checklist - Sunflower

Thor Release Readiness Checklist - Sunflower

Two sprints before feature freeze (209) 

Action

Responsible

Status

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 Trillium backlog 

Charlotte, Product owner

Done

All user stories tied to features should be written and estimated. 

Charlotte, Product owner

Done

Testing

Identify features that require e2e tests 
Identify features that require Karate tests

Charlotte, product owner together with Thor team

TBD 

Conduct user acceptance testin
  • Charlotte, as Product owner work together with with Thor team



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 (210)

Action

Responsible

Status

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 Trillium backlog

Charlotte, Product Owner

Done

Prepare data for Bugfest
Create user stories for Kitfox that outline your needs and instructions
Please consider how to test long lists/tables 

Charlotte, Product Owner and Nassib/Corrie 

Done

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?

Index Data









Any breaking changes? 

Thor

No

Re-Indexing for release upgrade? For bugfest Sunflower?

-

No

  • Add release notes 

    Include any previous release notes that still relate to the release 
    flag any known items with the label  known-issue-<<release>>
    See document - Release Notes Overview

Charlotte, as product owner 

Has begun adding notes.



Accessibility Testing

Run automated accessibility testing IF you have RTL/JEST tests review (https://github.com/nickcolley/jest-axe)'
OR conduct manual accessibility testing with Deque aXe 

-

-

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

-

Feature freeze sprint (211)

Action

Responsible

Status

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 Owner

Done

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 

Charlotte working with with KitFox team on bound+with data (BF-773)



  • 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 Team

In progress

Accessibility Testing

Run automated accessibility testing IF you have RTL/JEST tests review (https://github.com/nickcolley/jest-axe)'
OR conduct manual accessibility testing with Deque aXe 

-

-

Conduct or create user stories for performance/load testing. See

Types of tests

N/A

-

Sprint before Bugfest (aka Business Acceptance Testing) period (213)

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 

Thor 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



Modules Ready for deployment
Deployment information is provided in launchDescriptor section of module descriptor.  
Review test status - Unit, Integration, e2e tests
Tickets will be created automatically for each failure. 

Thor 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

Charlotte, Product Owner writes user stories. TBD who will conduct. 



Sprint before GO-Live (214)

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 devs at the Thor team.



Complete remaining performance/load testing. See

Types of tests

Charlotte, Product Owner writes user stories. TBD who will conduct. 



Go-Live sprint (215)

Action

Responsible

Status

Action

Responsible

Status

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

Thor Team



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

Thor 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