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Template Task List for Regenerating an Application System

The following lists template conversion tasks for moving an older application into a CA Gen Release 8.5 application environment. This task list varies depending on the number of older applications in your organization, the size, and expertise of the development team, and the development stages of the applications to convert. The task list is not based on using a particular component or the release from which you are converting. For example, the task list is not dependent on using the Host Encyclopedia or the Client-Server Encyclopedia.

The template task list for regenerating an application system is:

• Pre-system test
• Convert model to CA Gen Release 8.5
  • Run consistency check against model
  • Identify and resolve consistency issues
  • Review, document, and fine-tune the data model
• Generate new system and perform preliminary system test
  • Allocate construction libraries
  • Generate database
  • Generate RI triggers
  • Review external action blocks
  • Select load modules for pre-system generation
  • Generate load modules for pre-system generation
  • Test and review selected load modules
• Establish detailed system test plan
  • Establish testing plan and testing sequence
  • Develop system test scripts
  • Load database with test data
  • Assign USER security access to modules
  • Review test system plan
• Suspend new development
  • Limit extra activity on prior schema models
• System test
  • Generate entire system to upgrade
  • Complete system test
  • Resolve any issues on differences
  • Validate entire system test results
• Production implementation
• Convert production models to current schema
  • Copy and rebind the plans
  • Regenerate system and promote system into production
• Validation
  • Validate procedures