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7.2 Customising Test Systems
7.2.1 Simulation of Production Environment
Of course, new software updates to be put into production are written with the
intention to support the business environment of the customer and then be delivered
for acceptance. This means that certain customer specific parameters have to be
set already during the acceptance phase. For reasons of efficiency these parameters
are usually not hard wired, i.e. not fixed in the code itself, but declared as variables.
Creating a meaningful test configuration means also tuning the functions to be
accepted with a view on their future usage. This procedure is called customising.
Customising of the acceptance environment offers another advantage in the sense
that during this phase the customising itself becomes an object for acceptance
testing, which means that a dump of the test environment can be used to put the
system into production later.
7.2.2 Business Know How
Figure
7.4
shows in a schematic way the items to be taken care of for customising.
Preparation
Build of Test System
technical
functional
Interface
Mapping
Fig. 7.4 Customising criteria
