Background on writing this book:
Most of the data migration projects can happen through the incremental data loading or if they have redesigned any of their business applications data migration need to be verified to give confidence level to the business users. Sometimes it is a critical activity and risk involved towards certification of the migrated data for business.
Many of these project timelines are getting extended or some failures are happening due to lack of; knowledge, best practices and the experiences or following right approach.
To overcome on the above situations and to be proved as best IT professionals in front of the business user community, we need a methodology and the right approach to conduct successful data migration testing and certify the data for business.
This book has been written with 10 plus years of testing experience on this kind of projects by suggesting the feasible approaches, practices and easy teams handling with right and ontime delivery by involving business users also. It also can reduce the risks while doing continuous planning improvements.
Different charts or diagrams can help the reader to understand the process faster also. One of the charts presented below:
Some of the Contents are:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The scenarios of data migration
Chapter 3: Requirements Analysis
Chapter 4: Testing practices for data migration
Chapter 5: During data discovery phase
Chapter 6: Identifying the Business scenario based data
Chapter 7: Identifying the relevant data schemas
Chapter 8: Identifying the tables/queries/SPs, etc. on each of the Data schemas
Chapter 9: Planning for each Data schemas Extraction, Transformation and Loading to target Applications.
Chapter 10: Verifying the source and target data flows for business operation continuity.
Chapter 11: Conducting data verification and validation by QA/Testing team
Chapter 12: Planning
Chapter 13: The project approach
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