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Effective Data Migration Testing

This document discusses testing strategies for data migrations. It recommends establishing a migration team, evaluating risks and scope, analyzing data transformations, designing rollbacks, automating testing for comprehensive coverage, identifying defects in dry runs, and performing post-migration testing to ensure seamless transitions. Pre-migration testing involves setting up test environments, configuring requirements, dry runs, and certifying scripts. Post-migration testing verifies migrated data on UIs, compares reports, and certifies migrations with rollbacks for failures. Automated testing prepares test scripts, manages migration processes, transforms data, generates reports, and executes UI tests for verification. Automation provides comprehensive coverage, speeds up processes, mitigates risks, and reduces costs through reusability

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Effective Data Migration Testing

This document discusses testing strategies for data migrations. It recommends establishing a migration team, evaluating risks and scope, analyzing data transformations, designing rollbacks, automating testing for comprehensive coverage, identifying defects in dry runs, and performing post-migration testing to ensure seamless transitions. Pre-migration testing involves setting up test environments, configuring requirements, dry runs, and certifying scripts. Post-migration testing verifies migrated data on UIs, compares reports, and certifies migrations with rollbacks for failures. Automated testing prepares test scripts, manages migration processes, transforms data, generates reports, and executes UI tests for verification. Automation provides comprehensive coverage, speeds up processes, mitigates risks, and reduces costs through reusability

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Effective Testing Strategy for

Data Migrations
Sravan Kumar Konidena, Architect

Ganesh Kumar Singh, Senior Consultant


Smita Sinha, Senior Consultant

ADP Pvt. Ltd

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Abstract

As technology is rapidly changing, enterprise corporations


need to bring their clients to modern platforms from legacy
systems. Also, in case of company mergers, the clients
have to be brought to a single product, post the merger. This
makes data migration an important activity to ensure that
transition is seamless. This paper is about testing strategy
for data migrations covering areas like pre and post data
comparison, comprehensive test coverage, automation
techniques, etc.

2
Reasons for Data Migrations

Decommissioning legacy systems

Adding new line of business

Relocation of infrastructure

Switching Vendors

Mergers

Consolidation of system

3
Data Migration: Key Risks

Application performance
Data loss Data corruption
issues

Prolonged downtime Budget overruns Customer or Brand Impact

4
Data Migration Test Strategy

• Establish a migration team

• Evaluate business risks and scope of migration

• Analyze data transformation from source to destination

• Design a roll back strategy in case of failures

• Automate the testing process to ensure coverage and speed

• Identify defects by performing dry runs on test environments

• Perform comprehensive post migration testing

• Ensure a seamless transition of the end-user experience

5
Pre-Migration Testing

Setup test
Configure destination Perform dry runs on Fix defects and certify Run reports and save
environment for
system requirements test environments migration scripts as baseline
migration

6
Post-Migration Testing

Verify the migrated Run the reports post- Compare pre and post Verify the results and Rollback, in case of
data on the UI migration migration reports certify the migrations any failures

7
Automated Migrations Testing

Prepare Test Scripts to


capture data - pre &
post migrations

Build a platform to Design logic for data


manage the entire transformation from
migration process source to destination

Generate reports to Execute scripts to


analyze failures compare the data

Run automated UI
tests for post
migration verification

8
Automated Migrations Testing - Benefits

Comprehensive
High speed Mitigate risks Reduce costs
coverage

• Verify the • Accelerate the • Avoid sporadic • Increase


complete set of process by issues and reusability with
data instead of performing ensure reduced efforts
sampling a more migrations minimum and greater
subset. per batch. downtime. accuracy.

9
Author Biography

Sravan Kumar is currently working in ADP as Architect, QA. He has experience


on various Test Automation tools/technologies, QA Strategies, Migrations
Testing, etc.

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Thank You!!!

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