2013-11-01 Release

Summary

Progression

Status

Activity

Description

Duration

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Submit change request

Open a build/test change request in https://yale.service-now.com/, assign to INF SN App Support

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Schedule code review

this should happen after initial handover and before release

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Initial development, pushes to test

Begin work in dev

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QA, UAT in test

iterate on defects found by QA and UAT feedback; any items passing both should be moved to "Ready to Release" column

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Conduct code review

Shouldn't take long, just basic validation of approach and docs

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Code Freeze

By Wed AM: Identify changes & updates that have passed both testing regimes. Push to preproduction.

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Regression Testing

QA group conducts regression testing in preproduction

minutes

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Go/no-go

Get approval from QA to go to production

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Production deployment

Push to prd.

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Production rollback

If applicable; follow ServiceNow Rollback Procedure.

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Clone

clone from prd to: pre, trn, and tst for after release

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Push to Test

re-push outstanding, ready work back to test

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Notify stakeholders

send out email w/ summary status & link to release documentation, close out RFC and cancel clone requests, if rollback or no-go.

minutes

Change Control

ServiceNow changes for 2013-11-01 (https://yale.service-now.com/change_request_list.do?sysparm_query=GOTOshort_description%3E%3Dservicenow%5Estart_dateON2013-11-01%40javascript%3Ags.dateGenerate('2013-11-01'%2C'start')%40javascript%3Ags.dateGenerate('2013-11-01'%2C'end'))

Release Notes

https://yale.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0001428

Approved Updates

Anything applied to preprod after Monday (https://yalepreproduction.service-now.com/sys_remote_update_set_list.do?sysparm_query=commit_date%3E%3Djavascript%3Ags.dateGenerate('2013-10-29'%2C'21%3A44%3A58'))

Manual Updates

Anything that the deployer must do manually (outside of update sets) to complete the deployment as it was done in test and preproduction.