Chris' Bio Good Advice requires the NetShow plug-in. When you're in the middle of what many are calling the IT challenge of, well, the century, temptation is surely bound to creep into your life. On your right shoulder is the little angel telling you that prioritizing and planning is the best way to deal with your deadline. This is not an option.
Testing is an integral part of ensuring risk exposure is at a minimum.
Planned changes to systems, programs, utilities and databases must be tested to ensure the coded changes are working as designed, are producing the desired results and that production processing failures are prevented. Processing failures can be minimized by performing thorough testing of all system components involved with a change to simulate real-world processing conditions wherever possible. Feel free to read or print this article in its entirety, or jump to a specific area that interests you. This data may come from existing test databases, production databases, systems journals, or be created manually based on the test plans. The data must be restored and synchronized at the beginning of each test cycle.