Understanding confidence testing
During the 60-minute window, clients validate that the production environment is ready for a Pega Infinity upgrade. Before the 60-minute window, clients should create a test plan to run smoke tests to ensure that the run-time behavior is correct. Clients should also perform a dry-run of the test plan on the Staging stage (temporary production environment).
When you create a test plan, consider performing some of the following tests for each of your applications:
- Log in as operators in each of the primary access groups.
- Create case instances and step through a few case life cycles.
- Evaluate the accuracy of dashboard reports.
- Visually inspect each of the portals.
When you create a test plan, consider the following points:
- When you use Deployment Manager to deploy the upgrade pipeline and the deployment moves to the production stage, it:
- Promotes rule updates, such as reports or delegated rules, to the production environment when the upgraded production environment goes live.
- Discards updates to data or case instances in the confidence testing product rule after the upgraded production environment goes live.
- Avoid performing any updates to external systems.
- The database does not contain case or data instances, so you might want to include them in your testing package to enable report testing or case inspection.
- Agents do not run on the temporary production environment, so some functionality might not work. Consider disabling agents during a dry run to set accurate expectations.