Saturday, March 03, 2007

Testing for DST change in 2007

I believe testing at below different points in time should suffice.

1. When the daylight patches are applied by the sys admins, the application teams should go in and test from basic to full functionality. But if time pressed below testing should do:
a. Application home page comes up fine
b. Test one or two critical time related functionality (date formatting, time related calculations, etc).
2. New rule Spring DST time, March 11th: Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing.
3. Old rule Spring DST time, April 1st. Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing. (if the 2nd one above works than this is more of a sanity check).
4. New rule Fall DST time, November 4th: Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing.
5. Old rule Fall DST time, October 28th. Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing. (if the 4th one above works than this is more of a sanity check).