Production Validation: The Missing Layer in Enterprise Releases

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In an enterprise environment, production failures are more often defined as testing failures, but they include other high-impact aspects, such as release readiness, data quality, exception handling and operational approval. However, the missing layer is not just about conducting more testing. It should include a proper, disciplined review process for the validation of business-critical data and release activity. The problem is not just about the effect of production on payroll, benefits, reporting, reconciliation or other sensitive operational functions. Production issues can also lead to payment problems, downstream reporting errors, audit concerns and operational disruption. Production readiness should be treated as a business-control question, not just as a software-quality question. What Production Validation Means

Figure 1: Enterprise Release Workflow Incorporating Production Validation As illustrated in Figure 1, production validation is the operational discipline that sits between ordinary release preparation and moving changes into the live environment․ It exists to ensure that key records‚ release outputs and downstream expectations have been appropriately reviewed before changes are moved into the live environment․ In contrast to pass/fail testing validation‚ production validation includes checks to determine whether the data is complete‚ exceptions are handled‚ differences are worked out and the release criteria are acceptable for production․ Production validation usually requires multiple views of validation results‚ reconciliation sign-offs between files‚ …

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