4+ Weeks Before the Date of Your TEST CADENCE Environment Update(s)

Release Readiness

Review the Spotlight video to give you a quick overview of the major themes in the update. To access:

Review the What’s New for the update. To access:

Go to Oracle Help Center.
Navigate to Cloud Applications Fusion Applications Suite, then select See All.
Select Logistics.
Select Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management.
Select Review what's new for Transportation Management or Review what's new for Global Trade Management .

There, you will find link to:

Update Tasks which gives you information to help you plan, deploy and validate your update. This section also links to Optional Features which provides information about expired Opt In features and Opt In features that will expire in an upcoming update.
- Expired Opt In Features: This table shows features which were originally delivered as optional but are now enabled by default. These features are very important to test before the production update.
- Opt In Features with Future Expiration: This table displays optional features and the "Optional Until" version when the feature will no longer be optional. These features retain your ability to toggle the "Opted In" value from "True" to "False." If an optional feature is toggled off for this update, you should thoroughly test in a test cadence environment (by setting "Opted In" to "True") before the feature reaches the "Optional Until" version.
Feature Summary that gives you a snapshot look at the new features delivered in the update.
Your primary resource to help with your update planning. The guide is organized by functional areas in the product, and it describes all the new features and enhancements and how to enable them. It links to other resources that you might need. The guide will also alert you to the few features or changes that are delivered automatically, without requiring any action on your part. If they apply to you, features that are delivered automatically are important to test before the production update.

Review the latest Release Notes for the update. To access:

Release Notes provide more detailed information about:

Corrections reflecting detail fixes made for the update.
Parameters and Properties describing new parameters and properties.
Deprecated Items indicating functionality that will be removed from a future update.
Known issues.

Review extra product documentation. To access:

There you'll find links to:

The release notes.
The What's New guides.
A Getting Started Guide that provides guidance for getting started with setting up Transportation and Global Trade Management on the cloud.
Administration documents such as the Report Designer's Guide.
Interoperability guides for integration and data management.
The REST API Guides.
Instructions on configuring the Logistics Digital Assistant.
The online help for the project.

Prepare or update test plans to include steps to run through your main business processes.
Sign in to your test cadence environment to make sure it's working as expected and is a good representation of your production environment.
Schedule a Production-to-Test (P2T) Environment Refresh to align test with production to:
- test performance against a production sized dataset (this is especially valuable if your data characteristics have changed since the last P2T) and / or
- have been actively developing in your test environment, changing the setup and configuration, and it is no longer similar to your production environment.
You must schedule this at least three weeks in advance of the requested refresh date, which must be at least a week before your test cadence update date. See KB6749: Oracle Fusion Cloud Transportation and Global Trade Management: Update Policy for more information about the Environment Refresh Policy. Note that a P2T clones the entire database with specific exceptions documented in the Environment Refresh Policy.
Review integration tests to confirm APIs will still work and to exercise your agents and back end processes.