Originally posted by: residium

Hi, were upgrading from 6.7 to 8.2

When we recompile and save the maps in 8.2 format we naturally would like to test them out. Is there any best practices here? I see a lot of problems because I want to do the Map-tests on my Design Studio machine and I am not sure that is even possible?

The problem I forsee is that on the production server everything in the infrastructure is setup correctly. For example if your Map makes a DB-lookup it is most likely that this connection is in place on the Production server but if I want to test the same map on my Dev studio machine, this machine wont have this DB-connection hence it is not likely I will be able to do any testing on my Dev studio machine? Correct? How do you handle these issues?

/Johan
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Originally posted by: NancyR

Since you probably do not want to test your maps in a production database, I'd assume you're going to need to set up another database for testing (and probably a third one for qa).
You may want to read up on how to use the Resource Registry to handle switching from testing in your development environment to the handoff to QA to the handoff to production without recompiling your maps if you're not already familiar with that feature.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

You should have a development environment very similar to your production environment. This includes development copies of any databases required. Your QA environment should be identical to the Production environment except pointing to QA copies of the required databases. Using the Integration Flow Designer and the Resource Registry to specify Prod, QA, & Dev servers, paths, DBs, User IDs & password allows you to easily generate systems appropriate to the environment to which they are deployed.
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