Report for May 18

Report Date

May 2018

Achievements in Last Period

• Moved into TEST on 2 May and Integration testing and UAT started
• Developer has created a healthcheck that reports back on all 6 servers – this can also help Moodle
• LTW released the building blocks owned by other people to test e.g. ECA, Tophat  and so far are working okay
• DevTech updated rollback plan
• Decisions
  • At team meeting on 15 May it was agreed that as we are not changing anything we will not need DR testing and confirmed that resilience is testing by doing rolling restarts. This is a manual process.
  • On advice from DevTech at team meeting of 21 May we do not require to do any load testing as this is a minor upgrade. There was concern that there was no load testing last year when the upgrade moved to a project last year but the team has agreed that benchmarking can be carried out this year based on analytics

Issues

• There was an issue with the 2 new servers KB3T and AT3T not connecting – looked like they had never been working. DevTech developer rebuilt from scratch and they are now working. However there still looks like there is a possible firewall issue which developer is following up on.
• Deployment date had to change: was 3 July now 17 July - LTW discovered that progression results are being published on 3 July meaning that students will need access to Learn on that day to check their grades, results etc. Plus Medics are having resits on the 10 July and there is database patching on the 11th that we should avoid so the next best date of 17 July was agreed by LTW.

Next Steps

• TechMan to help DevTech with database backup
• Integration testing and UAT to be completed
• LTW confirming pre and post conditions for implementation plan then PM will submit proposed delivery to GoCAB
• LTW documentation tasks are well under way and will be completed this month

Milestones