2013-11-15 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

days

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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

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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.

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Change Control

ServiceNow changes for 2013-11-15 (https://yale.service-now.com/change_request_list.do?sysparm_query=GOTOshort_description%3E%3Dservicenow%5Estart_dateON2013-11-15%40javascript%3Ags.dateGenerate('2013-11-15'%2C'start')%40javascript%3Ags.dateGenerate('2013-11-15'%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('2013-11-11'%2C'21%3A44%3A58'))

Here's the set:

Nov. 15, 2013

  • D826: Ethernet Add: SCTASK version of PTAEO is misaligned in PRE-PROD and PROD 2013/11/14 - 1
  • R1040: Retire 'Finalize YaleConnect Migration' Service Request 2013/10/29 - 9
  • R1062 - Request: Make spelling in dropdowns match. 2013/10/30 - 2
  • R808: New Catalog Item for "Request a New MOVI Svc Acct" 2013/04/29 - 6, 2013/11/06 - 6, 2013/11/06 - 7
  • D817,R808 - Quantity Drop down is not required on this Request 2013/11/12 - 2
  • D807 , R808 - Invalid email can be submitted for the request  SAME AS R808
  • END READY TO SERVE : BEGIN START REPLACEMENT
  • R847: Ethernet Add 2013/05/07 - 1,2013/05/30 - 1,2013/05/30 - 2,2013/07/19 - 8,2013/07/24 - 4,2013/08/13 - 2
  • R895 Second time committing Contact info for telco forms: 2013/05/01 -2 (already committed), 2013/07/24 - 3, 2013/07/26 - 1, 2013/07/26 - 2
  • R1020: FINANCIAL APPROVAL WORKFLOW (THIS WILL HAVE TO BE FURTHER ADVANCED LATER, BUT MOST OF IT NEEDS TO GO NOW) 2013/09/27 - 1,2013/10/02 - 3,2013/10/07 - 3,2013/10/16 - 1,2013/10/17-5,2013/11/11 - 1,2013/11/11 - 3
  • R1099: Financial Approval Workflow One PTAEO: Attach to Ethernet Add. 2013/10/22 - 2
  • R1105: Add Ethernet - Set Upper limit = 50 2013/10/29 - 6
  • R1106: Add Ethernet - Update Delivery Time on Req Form 2013/10/29 - 7
  • R1107: Ethernet Add: Create new question on form 2013/11/04 - 2,2013/11/06 - 3,2013/11/06 - 8
  • R1108: PTAEO: Improve messaging on invalid length ORG field 2013/11/04 - 3
  • D506 - Ethernet Add New form should not show Floor variable from variable set. 2013/05/31 - 1,2013/07/24 - 4
  • D575 - Requested for broken on Ethernet Add form. 2013/07/24 - 1,2013/10/25 - 4
  • D582 - Building Data variable sets: Relabel field 2013/07/25 - 2
  • D585 & R895 - "Contact Information for telco forms" variable set needs to be retested SAME AS R895
  • D642: Ethernet Add New: Limit 'requested for' to active users. 2013/08/27 - 7
  • D732: Ethernet: Contact Info - phone number required 2013/10/23 - 3
  • D736: Financial Approval: Approval info not carried thru to SCTASK 2013/10/25 - 6
  • D740 - Fin App - Bolt member request not auto-approved. SPEC change. 2013/10/25 - 5
  • D746: Financial Approval: 5 minute timer on initial approver should not exist 2013/10/25 - 1
  • D747 - Fin App - After Initial Approver timeout, initial approver should still be able to approve request. SAME AS D746
  • D748 - Fin App - Clarification of approver states and Req Status options after initial timeout. SAME AS D746
  • D750 - FA notification (Confirmation) inaccurate text 2013/10/28 - 1,2013/10/28 - 2,2013/10/28 - 3,2013/10/29 - 4,2013/10/30 - 12
  • D751 - FA notification (Rejected) inaccurate text 2013/10/28 - 4, 2013/10/29 - 4
  • D752 - FA notification (Cancelled) inaccurate text 2013/10/29 - 4 
  • D754 - FA notification (Approved) inaccurate text 2013/10/29 - 4
  • D755 - FA notification (Resolved) inaccurate text 2013/10/29 - 4
  • D759 - FA notification (Pending Approval) inaccurate text 2013/10/29 - 4
  • D760 - Financial Approval Workflow: Approver can change approval after RITM cancellation 2013/10/30 - 8
  • D764 - Ethernet Add: IE8, Stack overflow on changing qty 2013/10/29 - 5
  • D765 - Request OPENED BY BOLT member does not auto-approve. 2013/10/29 - 3
  • D768,R841 - Request should be in the state it was originally set to be 2013/10/30 - 9
  • D771 - R1106 Update Delivery time to 10 days. 2013/10/30 - 7
  • D795: Financial Approval notifications for accept and reject firing twice. 2013/10/31 - 6

deploy order:

2013/11/14 - 1
2013/04/29 - 6
2013/05/07 - 1
2013/05/30 - 1
2013/05/30 - 2
2013/05/31 - 1
2013/07/19 - 8
2013/07/24 - 1
2013/07/24 - 3
2013/07/24 - 4
2013/07/25 - 2
2013/07/26 - 1
2013/07/26 - 2
2013/08/13 - 2
2013/08/27 - 7
2013/09/27 - 1
2013/10/02 - 3
2013/10/07 - 3
2013/10/16 - 1
2013/10/17 - 5
2013/10/22 - 2
2013/10/23 - 3
2013/10/25 - 1
2013/10/25 - 4
2013/10/25 - 5
2013/10/25 - 6
2013/10/28 - 1
2013/10/28 - 2
2013/10/28 - 3
2013/10/28 - 4
2013/10/29 - 3
2013/10/29 - 4
2013/10/29 - 5
2013/10/29 - 6
2013/10/29 - 7
2013/10/29 - 9
2013/10/30 - 2
2013/10/30 - 7
2013/10/30 - 8
2013/10/30 - 9
2013/10/30 - 12
2013/10/31 - 6
2013/11/04 - 2
2013/11/04 - 3
2013/11/06 - 3
2013/11/06 - 6
2013/11/06 - 7
2013/11/06 - 8
2013/11/11 - 1
2013/11/11 - 3
2013/11/12 - 2

That's 51 update sets. Quite a lot of work finally going into PROD. 

Manual Updates

Must manually activate the category in the PROD service catalog:

Collaboration and File Sharing