Using testing standards

Testing standards and procedures help you avoid the same kinds of problems for test database development as your IMS development standards do for production databases.

Some of the subjects that might be included in your test system standards and that affect test database design are:

  • Objectives of your test system
    • What you test for and at what development stages do you test for it
    • The kinds of testing—offline, online, integrated DB/DC or isolated
  • Description of the test organization and definition of responsibilities of each group
  • Relationship of test and production modes of operation
  • How your test system development process deals with:
    • DB/TM structures
    • Development tools
    • DB/TM features
    • Backup and recovery