Migration Project Testing

This white paper by Don Estes provides an introduction to the unique issues encountered in designing the testing for a migration project.  You may view the paper online from the hyperlinks in the table of contents below, or you may download a PDF file of the whole paper here.

Table of Contents:
 

1	Executive Summary
1.1	Testing Is Expensive
1.2	Testing As Risk Management
1.3	Optimizing Use of Testing Resources
1.4	Ensuring Realistic Expectations
1.5	Migration Testing Alternatives
2	Typical Testing Approaches
2.1	Comparison Versus Correctness Testing
2.2	Subject Matter Experts
2.3	Test Data Versus Production Data
2.4	Batch Comparison Tests
2.5	Batch Correctness Tests
2.6	Online Comparison Tests
2.7	Online Correctness Tests
2.8	Stages of Testing
2.9	Summary
3	Professional Testing Approaches
3.1	Positive Versus Negative Testing
3.2	Coverage Analysis
3.3	Construct Coverage Analysis
3.4	Complexity Analysis
3.5	Risk Optimized Testing
4	Automation of Migration Testing
4.1	Source Code Instrumentation
4.2	Capture Processing
4.3	Validation Replay
4.4	Business Rule Replay
4.5	I/O Replay
4.6	Datacomm Replay
4.7	Summary
5	Conclusion and Recommendations