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Academy · Testing & Quality · 300 Professional

Cutover Rehearsal Testing and Production Verification

Covers testing the cutover itself: dress rehearsals, timing, fallback tests and the production verification tests run before the business is let back in. Learners build a production verification checklist and a go-live sign-off sequence that runs from technical readiness to business release.

  • 55 minutes
  • 5 lessons + quiz
  • Test Lead / Test Manager, Program / PMO Lead, Basis / Platform Administrator
Start the course
  1. 01Why rehearse cutover11 min
  2. 02Rehearsal design11 min
  3. 03Fallback testing11 min
  4. 04Production verification testing12 min
  5. 05Go-live sign-off sequence10 min
  6. QZCourse quiz12 questions

What you’ll be able to do

  • Plan dress rehearsals that test timing, sequence and roles of the cutover runbook
  • Design rollback or fallback tests and define their decision points
  • Create a production verification test set that is safe to run in production
  • Define the go-live sign-off sequence from technical to business
  • Capture lessons from rehearsals into the final runbook

Sources and further reading