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Planning Upgrade Test Details

It is important to plan your upgrade kit testing ahead of time, to make sure that you create any needed infrastructure elements and choose appropriate settings when you create the upgrade kit.

This topic is part of Determining Your Upgrade Requirements.

The following general recommendations are useful for most test plans:

• Create all upgrade kits as optional upgrade kits. This facilitates testing by letting users request an upgrade at their convenience. (A required upgrade kit might or might not prompt users to upgrade when they start the application, depending on the version requirements and the test client version.) After you have verified that an optional upgrade kit installs correctly, you can change it to be required, if you want, and retest its installation using another test client.
• Distribute a new upgrade kit to a test configuration (such as the Siebel Test Client configuration) before distributing it to production configurations. If necessary, create such a test configuration ahead of time. Make sure that it has the appropriate test employee logins assigned to it, either by means of configuration files or dynamic assignments.
• Test each upgrade kit with both Mobile Web Clients and Developer Web Clients.