This weekend we are officially closing the door on Conversion Test #1!
We ran the last of our conversions 17 days ago, and since then have been running post-conversion processes and evaluating the data that converted over. In doing so we have found some areas that need more work - like duplicate addresses - and some areas where we need to tweak our conversion settings - like recognition history. We've also found a few possible bugs and have passed that information along to Datatel. (I really do find more than my share of software bugs - or maybe they find me!)
In the past week we've refreshed the data in bentest and prepared bentest for the second conversion - running pre-processes, setting up L1 groups, etc.
This weekend we are going to wipe the slate clean and create a fresh clone of production for our second conversion environment. We've been doing cleanup in production and benlive as we've worked through the first conversion, and so expect to find many fewer errors this time around.
For those of you who are curious, our first conversion test took 3 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes and 57 seconds to run all of the conversion validations, test updates, and updates. We expect the second conversion to go more quickly, because we don't expect to be running the validation stage multiple times as we did first time around. Our goal is to fly through conversion #2 and then keep this environment around for training and testing. Wish us luck!