Spitfire Release Readiness Checklist - Ramsons

Each sprint

ActionResponsibleStatus
  • Review tickets and decide if Release notes should be updated
needs-releasenote-ramsons


needs-releasenote-quesnelia
needs-releasenote-poppy



Team
  • Sprint 188

Note: R release Jira ticket

  • Verify that all test cases/test suits for features are created and PO-verified
QA + POs
  • Sprint 188
  • Sprint 189
  • Sprint 190

Two sprints before feature freeze () 

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

feature list is accurate and up-to-date


Natalia: to move tickets with release field "R" to the next release

  • All user stories tied to features should be written and estimated. 
Product ownerNatalia: to double -ckeck user stories 

Testing

  • Identify features that require e2e tests 
  • Identify features that require Karate tests
Team

From Poppy Release notes discussion

Need Karate tests for consortia > Action item to create consortia specific Karate tests stories. So no expectation that these stories will be ready for Dev freeze and for Go-Live?  

What about consortia specific e2e tests 

  • Conduct user acceptance testing 
  • Product owner (maybe a SIG member can help write tasks?) 
  • Team needs to setup an environment for UAT
Goal Sprint 186  - need rancher environment to be updated. 
  • Conduct or create user stories for performance/load testing. See
Types of tests
Product Owner writes user stories. TBD who will conduct. no need in PTF testing, Valery will create his own tests
  • Document Potential Risks and Risk Mitigation Plan
Team

One sprint before feature freeze ()

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

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?
Team





Any breaking changes? 

Team

Re-Indexing for release upgrade? For bugfest? Consortia test environment? 

  • Required
  • Timing 


  • 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
PO and Dev lead

From Poppy Releases notes - Do we need to carry them to "Q" release 

  • Authority API breaking changes documentation
    • enabling with loadReference=true
  • Call number browse data migration documentation 
  • Update consortia mod-search documentation (Slava) 
  • Permissions (Christine/KG) 
  • Authority Auto-linking tenant level  configuration (for non-consortia and consortia) 
  • Reindexing improvements based on UXPROD-3936
  • Add any new permissions (like UINOTES-141 - Getting issue details... STATUS )
  • Need to add a note about one instance of quickMARC needs to be run. IOW quickMARC module is not HA
  • Also review Poppy (R2 2023) Release Notes to determine if other notes should move over to Q release notes 

Accessibility Testing

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

Document Potential Risks and Risk Mitigation Plan

Please add risks below : 

Team


Feature freeze sprint ()

ActionResponsibleStatus
  • Update Features' statuses
  • Identify which features are at risk and the "at-risk" label to the feature and escalate to stakeholders
Product Owner
  • Prepare data for Bugfest (ECS and non-ECS)
    • 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>>
PO and Dev lead

From Poppy Releases notes - Do we need to carry them to "Q" release 

  • Authority API breaking changes documentation
    • enabling with loadReference=true
  • Call number browse data migration documentation 
  • Update consortia mod-search documentation (Slava) 
  • Permissions (Christine/KG) 
  • Authority Auto-linking tenant level  configuration (for non-consortia and consortia) 
  • Reindexing improvements based on UXPROD-3936
  • Add any new permissions (like UINOTES-141 - Getting issue details... STATUS )
  • Need to add a note about one instance of quickMARC needs to be run. IOW quickMARC module is not HA
  • Also review Poppy (R2 2023) Release Notes to determine if other notes should move over to Q release notes 

Accessibility Testing

Team
  • Conduct or create user stories for performance/load testing. See
Types of tests
Product Owner writes user stories. TBD who will conduct. 
  • Verify that all test cases/test suits for features are created and PO-verified
QA + POs

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

ActionResponsibleStatus
  • 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
  • Generate Release Artifacts (see Orchid) and link to Release notes 
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>>
PO and Dev lead
Team

Team meets with Kitfox to review upgrade instructions. 

Team's accept Bugfest ECS and non-ECS builds. 

  • QA Team 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(check if functionality works as expected)
Team
  • Meet with FSE hosting to review release notes/instructions
Team
  • Conduct performance/load testing. See
Types of tests
Product Owner writes user stories. TBD who will conduct. 

Sprint before GO-Live 

ActionResponsibleStatus
  • Update Features' statuses
  • There should be no at-risk feature 
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>>
PO and Dev lead 
  • Complete remaining performance/load testing. See
Types of tests
Product Owner writes user stories. TBD who will conduct. 

Go-Live sprint

ActionResponsibleStatus
  • 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>>
PO and Dev lead