I have a question regarding testing patch scenarios for our various products. Let's say I have releases as follows...
Initial January Hotfix February Hotfix
The HFs are cumulative, small updates with no version change.
When I want to test that all goes well with patch application, I would test a matric like this...
Initial + Febrary Hotfix Initial + January Hotfix + February Hotfix
I do this to ensure that the latest patch will upgrade the initial release properly and will update systems that had previously applied the January Hotfix.
Along with patches, we ship Full install suites for new machines or customers that contain all of the Hotfixes, of course. So I would then test
January HF Full Build + February HF
My question is, is this secnario covered in the Initial + January Hotfix + February Hotfix listed above? It is my understanding that when the January Hotfix is applied to the Initial release, it is in fact making it identical to the Full January Hotfix package used to create the patch. So I would then not have to test January Full + February HF. ??
Any info appreciated as I'm trying to streamline my patch testing processes! :eek:
If you are installing the patch like Initial + Jan fix + Feb fix it will work absolutely fine.
On other case where you are supplying Initial+Janfix as a major release, in that case the Feb fix you supplied above will not work for this new release. for this you need to create another patch release.
