Service Pack Test Plan

At this point we are scheduling Backwards FINITE, with approximately 1/3
of our resources constrained finitely (gateway work centers, bottlenecks
etc.) , the other 2/3 infinite. We haven't yet tested forward finite,
or any of the infinite combinations because that is not how we intend to
run, but it might be interesting to see if there is a correlation. We
are start to finish on op seq rules. There are a few instances where we
could conceded to actually stopping a started operation and doing a
change over, but that would definitely be an exception to the rule for a
job to move out that significantly, but as you may well already know,
just running MRP without running global plays hell with your dispatch
report, so we always global reschedule when we run MRP. Having to check
that box to get ops to reschedule correctly can cause some minor
irritations, and we have developed some procedures to minimize it for
the time being. Right now we are experimenting on the optimal timing
and frequency of our MRP/Global run.



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of robertb_versa@...
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 10:26 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan





Good to know. (Thx Rob.)

Can I assume it's consistent whether or not the jobs are FWD/BKWD
scheduled or resources are finite/infinite (or a mix) or for any of the
possible OP to OP seq rules are defined in the MoMs?

I shudder to say it, but my expectations of scheduling have been beaten
so low... I could live with this as long as it's consistent! (:o

Rob Brown

--- Original Message ---
From:"Rob Bucek" <rbucek@... <mailto:rbucek%40dsmfg.com> >
Sent:Fri 6/19/09 7:04 pm
To:<vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> >
Subj:RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

The schedule started operations button is not functioning correctly. We
found (and Epicor reproduced) that if a Job has a started operation and
the box is not checked it wont reschedule most if any operations on that
job during a global scheduling run. When the box is checked it will
reschedule started operations and all other operations. So in effect it
seems to be completely ineffective when not checked (which is a state
that should allow rescheduling of operations not started).

From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf
Of Robert Brown
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:10 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

What's the new buggy behavior you found?
Rob

________________________________
From: Rob Bucek <rbucek@... <mailto:rbucek%40dsmfg.com>
<mailto:rbucek%40dsmfg.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:10:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

On that note, is 409 still on schedule? Found yet another major
scheduling bug that they have slated for 409....

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On
Behalf
Of Brian W. Spolarich
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:28 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Someone I spoke with at Epicor said a couple of weeks.

--
Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix
bspolarich@advanced photonix. com
<mailto:bspolarich% 40advancedphoton ix.com> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotoni x.com

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> ]
On
Behalf Of Jerry W. Rodden
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Subject: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Do you know when 803.408a is to be released? Epic web web site only
shows 803.408 as having been released.

Jerry Rodden

SA - Production Planning/MRP

Cardington Yutaka Technologies Inc.

575 West Main Street

Cardington, OH 43315

Phone: 419-864-8777 ext. 6209

Fax: 419-864-7771

Email jrodden@yutakatech. com <mailto:jrodden% 40yutakatech. com>

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Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
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(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder
and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/.
<http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ linksYahoo! Groups Links

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I'm planning on entering the brave world of Vantage SP testing with
8.03.408a, which is the first time we'll have patched Vantage since we
went live last summer.



Anyone have a test plan they'd be willing to provide as inspiration?



--

Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix

bspolarich@...
<mailto:bspolarich@...> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotonix.com <http://www.advancedphotonix.com>





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Do you know when 803.408a is to be released? Epic web web site only
shows 803.408 as having been released.



Jerry Rodden

SA - Production Planning/MRP

Cardington Yutaka Technologies Inc.

575 West Main Street

Cardington, OH 43315

Phone: 419-864-8777 ext. 6209

Fax: 419-864-7771

Email jrodden@...





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Someone I spoke with at Epicor said a couple of weeks.

--
Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix / Picometrix
    bspolarich@... ~ 734-864-5618 ~ www.advancedphotonix.com


-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry W. Rodden
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Do you know when 803.408a is to be released? Epic web web site only
shows 803.408 as having been released.



Jerry Rodden

SA - Production Planning/MRP

Cardington Yutaka Technologies Inc.

575 West Main Street

Cardington, OH 43315

Phone: 419-864-8777 ext. 6209

Fax: 419-864-7771

Email jrodden@...





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------------------------------------

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
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(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/linksYahoo! Groups Links
On that note, is 409 still on schedule? Found yet another major
scheduling bug that they have slated for 409....



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Brian W. Spolarich
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:28 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan





Someone I spoke with at Epicor said a couple of weeks.

--
Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix
bspolarich@...
<mailto:bspolarich%40advancedphotonix.com> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotonix.com

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
Behalf Of Jerry W. Rodden
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Do you know when 803.408a is to be released? Epic web web site only
shows 803.408 as having been released.

Jerry Rodden

SA - Production Planning/MRP

Cardington Yutaka Technologies Inc.

575 West Main Street

Cardington, OH 43315

Phone: 419-864-8777 ext. 6209

Fax: 419-864-7771

Email jrodden@... <mailto:jrodden%40yutakatech.com>

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------------------------------------

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder
and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/linksYahoo! Groups Links





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What's the new buggy behavior you found?
Rob




________________________________
From: Rob Bucek <rbucek@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:10:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan





On that note, is 409 still on schedule? Found yet another major
scheduling bug that they have slated for 409....

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On Behalf
Of Brian W. Spolarich
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:28 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Someone I spoke with at Epicor said a couple of weeks.

--
Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix
bspolarich@advanced photonix. com
<mailto:bspolarich% 40advancedphoton ix.com> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotoni x.com

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> ] On
Behalf Of Jerry W. Rodden
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Subject: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Do you know when 803.408a is to be released? Epic web web site only
shows 803.408 as having been released.

Jerry Rodden

SA - Production Planning/MRP

Cardington Yutaka Technologies Inc.

575 West Main Street

Cardington, OH 43315

Phone: 419-864-8777 ext. 6209

Fax: 419-864-7771

Email jrodden@yutakatech. com <mailto:jrodden% 40yutakatech. com>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

------------ --------- --------- ------

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder
and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/.
<http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ linksYahoo! Groups Links

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The schedule started operations button is not functioning correctly. We
found (and Epicor reproduced) that if a Job has a started operation and
the box is not checked it wont reschedule most if any operations on that
job during a global scheduling run. When the box is checked it will
reschedule started operations and all other operations. So in effect it
seems to be completely ineffective when not checked (which is a state
that should allow rescheduling of operations not started).



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Brown
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:10 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan





What's the new buggy behavior you found?
Rob

________________________________
From: Rob Bucek <rbucek@... <mailto:rbucek%40dsmfg.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:10:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

On that note, is 409 still on schedule? Found yet another major
scheduling bug that they have slated for 409....

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On
Behalf
Of Brian W. Spolarich
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:28 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Someone I spoke with at Epicor said a couple of weeks.

--
Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix
bspolarich@advanced photonix. com
<mailto:bspolarich% 40advancedphoton ix.com> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotoni x.com

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> ]
On
Behalf Of Jerry W. Rodden
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Subject: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Do you know when 803.408a is to be released? Epic web web site only
shows 803.408 as having been released.

Jerry Rodden

SA - Production Planning/MRP

Cardington Yutaka Technologies Inc.

575 West Main Street

Cardington, OH 43315

Phone: 419-864-8777 ext. 6209

Fax: 419-864-7771

Email jrodden@yutakatech. com <mailto:jrodden% 40yutakatech. com>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

------------ --------- --------- ------

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder
and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/.
<http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ linksYahoo! Groups Links

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Hey Brian,
> I'm planning on entering the brave world of Vantage SP testing with
> 8.03.408a, which is the first time we'll have patched Vantage since
> we went live last summer.
>
> Anyone have a test plan they'd be willing to provide as inspiration?
>

When we bought a new Terminal Server (2008), the license from our old TS did
not transfer. So this machine became our Epicor Test machine. This machine
always has the most current version of Epicor running on it. We take one of
our backups and restore it that machine and run the conversions. When people
want to test if something is fixed, we have them start a terminal server
session on that machine to test it.

This is OK but I want to make it better. What I would like to do is:

- Make a VM out of each Release or Service Pack for historical purposes and
to test two versions at the same time.

- Create some Unit Testing scripts to make sure that things were fixed in
the past were still fixed -- like open source http://www.nunit.org

Mark W.
Good to know. (Thx Rob.)

Can I assume it's consistent whether or not the jobs are FWD/BKWD scheduled or resources are finite/infinite (or a mix) or for any of the possible OP to OP seq rules are defined in the MoMs?

I shudder to say it, but my expectations of scheduling have been beaten so low... I could live with this as long as it's consistent! (:o

Rob Brown

--- Original Message ---
From:"Rob Bucek" <rbucek@...>
Sent:Fri 6/19/09 7:04 pm
To:<vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Subj:RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

The schedule started operations button is not functioning correctly. We
found (and Epicor reproduced) that if a Job has a started operation and
the box is not checked it wont reschedule most if any operations on that
job during a global scheduling run. When the box is checked it will
reschedule started operations and all other operations. So in effect it
seems to be completely ineffective when not checked (which is a state
that should allow rescheduling of operations not started).



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Brown
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:10 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan





What's the new buggy behavior you found?
Rob

________________________________
From: Rob Bucek <rbucek@... <mailto:rbucek%40dsmfg.com> >
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:10:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

On that note, is 409 still on schedule? Found yet another major
scheduling bug that they have slated for 409....

From: vantage@yahoogroups .com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com] On
Behalf
Of Brian W. Spolarich
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:28 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Someone I spoke with at Epicor said a couple of weeks.

--
Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix
bspolarich@advanced photonix. com
<mailto:bspolarich% 40advancedphoton ix.com> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotoni x.com

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
[mailto:vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com> ]
On
Behalf Of Jerry W. Rodden
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 11:22 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com <mailto:vantage% 40yahoogroups. com>
Subject: [Vantage] Re:Service Pack Test Plan

Do you know when 803.408a is to be released? Epic web web site only
shows 803.408 as having been released.

Jerry Rodden

SA - Production Planning/MRP

Cardington Yutaka Technologies Inc.

575 West Main Street

Cardington, OH 43315

Phone: 419-864-8777 ext. 6209

Fax: 419-864-7771

Email jrodden@yutakatech. com <mailto:jrodden% 40yutakatech. com>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

------------ --------- --------- ------

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder
and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/.
<http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ files/>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vantage/ linksYahoo! Groups Links

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