Considerations:
- Documentation of live system.
- Verification.
- Debug information.
- Platform separation.
- Rollback.
The ideal QA environment
- Virtualized.
- Deployed or verified by project team.
- Rollback
- Root privileges.
Operating the test system
- Who is using the test system? (Names of testers,ensure only QA team has access)
- Load test scheduling (When will the system be put under load).
- Destructive testing (Destructive to break it).
Destructive testing
- Destructive software is a type of software testing which attempts to cause a piece of software to fail in an uncontrolled manner,in order to test its also known as Fail-over and Recover testing
Observing the test system
- Monitoring hardware.
- Fault free running time.
- System monitoring tools.
Evaluating the test results
- Test result A matched expected result A.
- escalating results even through criteria has been met.
- Caveats.