Test Plan or scenarios for conversion from Project 2003 to 2007

[Kannan]

Hi
We are converting our project data from Project Pro 2003 to Project Pro
2007. We would want to write test cases or scenarios to test the validity and
uniformity of the converted data. Any leads on what needs to be checked? or
pointers to get the test cases will be of great help.

Kannan

 

[denisbondar]

Hi Kannan!

Just wondering why you have that task? Do not you trust native M
Project converting? Have you faced with issues during converting?

Deni

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

A couple of suggestions, depending on how you plan to migrate:

1) Security settings: I would go back and track down the original functional
requirements, update as needed, then develop fresh test cases based on those.
Generally, the security settings migrate pretty effectively, but I am always
a bit of a skeptic. Just documenting the technical configuration will be
insufficient for developing your test cases for the post-migration period.
2) PWA Views: Views typically migrate pretty well, but filters do not.
3) Custom Fields: any fields that need to be changed, and the views in MPP
and PWA dependent on them.
4) Project Workspaces: Issues & Risk Lists often seem to throw errors after
migrating. There's any easy fix though, which I can't quite remember right
now.

Not sure if you also mean to test specific projects for validity, etc. Generally,
haven't seen an issue with those, but I suppose you could make sure to take
an interim plan before migrating and then compare against it afterwards.
The effort may be a bit tedious with a lot of projects, so perhaps just
do that for a smattering of them....not really required IMHO, but possible.

-A

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

There I go again answering questions before I've had my morning coffee.
You're in the MPP newsgroup, not MOPS....my bad.

If you're just talking MPP, I haven't seen many issues, but where I would
potentially see things may be:

1) Custom fields
2) Actual Work figures in the past
3) Durations & Dates

In that case, try taking an interim plan prior to migration and perhaps dropping
a table with all of your custom task fields into Excel for comparison purposes
later.

-A

 

[Kannan]

Thanks for all the replies. Thanks Andrew, for the reply. Will surely work on
those lines and get to pile up a few cases. To answer your question denis,
being a test i am not supposed to trust the tool will do all i wanted to. I
did not have a clue on what needs to be validated, so..

Kannan