Release Readiness Checklist - Nolana

Release Readiness Checklist - Nolana

Two sprints before feature freeze 

Action

 

Responsible

Sprint

Action

 

Responsible

Sprint

  • Update Features' statuses

  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature.  

 

Product owner

 

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

 

Product owner

 

Testing

  • Identify features that require e2e tests 

  • Identify features that require Karate tests

 

Team

 

Conduct user acceptance testing 

 

  • Product owner (maybe a SIG member can help write tasks?) 

  • Team needs to setup an environment for UAT

 

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

 

Team

 

One sprint before feature freeze 

Action

Responsible

Sprint

Action

Responsible

Sprint

  • Update Features' statuses

  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature.  

Product Owner

 

  • Test rails: Write/Review test cases 

    • Please consider how to test long lists/tables 

Product Owner/Manual QA/SIG

 

  • 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 

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>>

Team

 

Accessibility Testing

Team

 

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

Types of tests

Team

 

Bugfest (aka Business Acceptance Testing) period 

Action

Responsible

Sprint

Action

Responsible

Sprint

  • Update Features' statuses

  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature.

Product Owner

 

  • User stories: update Release field for those stories/bugs/tasks/etc that will not be done for the release. 

Product Owner

 

  • Add release notes 

    • Include any previous release notes that still relate to the release 

    • flag any known items with the label  known-issue-<<release>>

Team

 

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

Team

 

  • Conduct performance/load testing. See

Types of tests

Team

 

Sprint before GO-Live 

Action

Responsible

Sprint

Action

Responsible

Sprint

  • Update Features' statuses

  • There should be no at-risk features

Team

 

  • User stories: update Release field for those stories/bugs/tasks/etc that will not be done for the release. 

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>>

Team

 

  • Complete remaining performance/load testing. See

Types of tests

Team/PTF

 

Go-Live sprint

Action

Responsible

Sprint

Action

Responsible

Sprint

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

Team

 

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

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>>

Team