Chapter 12: Testing the Migration

Introduction

This chapter covers the suggested strategy for testing an application that was migrated from UNIX to the Microsoft Windows operating system or to Microsoft Interix. Testing is the process of determining the difference between the expected results and the observed results on the migrated application ” in particular, the output of the parent application versus the output of the migrated application. Only after thoroughly testing and measuring the test results, as defined by test plans, can you determine whether the migrated application satisfies all of its design goals.

This chapter describes the test objectives and the proposed release criteria. It also introduces the generic testing processes and the methodology that you can employ to test your application.

The appendixes described at the end of this chapter provide various templates and examples used in testing. To ensure that proper test coverage is applied to the migrated application, these templates and examples cover the following areas:

• Infrastructure

• Security

• Functionality

• Management

• Performance