Colors are great. If you software sends E-mails, you should re-direct any E-mail from a non-live account back to the user running the process. This ensures that 1) the tester gets the E-mail to review and 2) a test E-mail does not go out to someone who believes it to be real and reacts accordingly.
John Israel Senior Programmer/Analyst Dayton Superior Corporation 1125 Byers Road Miamisburg, OH 45342 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kate Stanton Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:50 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Question about updating customer's systems... Use colours, so users know if they are in Live or Test (eg normal grey for live, yellow background for test). The users can happily copy live data to test, do any conversions, run things to make sure all OK. Before we did this, users would do some testing, then forget they were not in Live, and do some real work. Cheers, Kate Kate Stanton Walstan Systems Ltd 4 Kelmarna Ave, Herne Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand Phone: + 64 9 360 5310 Mobile: + 64 21 400 486 Email: [email protected] On 17 June 2011 03:10, Tom Whitmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > We develop software for college bookstores. Over the past year and a half, > we implemented PRC's version control software in-house, which has helped us > improve the development and release process. We are no looking at how to > improve the installation process at our customers. At this point, our goal > is to have an isolated, sandbox, where we can install the update and have our > customers test. Once they are "happy", provide them tools to install the > code into their production system. > > As we start down this path, we are wondering if anyone in this group could > share their experiences of implementing something like this, and be willing > to share what they learned through your implementation (what worked, what > didn't, what are the gotcha's that we should make sure we address). > Thanks! > Tom Whitmore > RATEX Business Solution > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
