 Testing: Making the IT Separation FoolproofJoseph Joy
Chapter Chapter 23 in Divestitures and Spin-Offs, 2018, pp 265-274 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Divestiture transactions demand a complex and wide-ranging set of changes to business-critical information technology (IT) systems. These IT changes go through a software development life cycle (SDLC) that includes designing, building, testing, and deploying the changes. These changes must move through the SDLC quickly to avoid disrupting business for the divested entity and the seller company on Legal Day 1. Most IT teams are not accustomed to this size, scale, and complexity of changes required while being in a race against the clock. Testing teams engaged in divestitures are responsible for ensuring that the existing IT applications and infrastructure components are able to separately recognize and support legal entities, customers, suppliers, employees, product lists, and processes that are split between the seller and the divested entity. Additionally, testing teams must also operate under extreme time constraints to minimize defects and risk to transaction close. This complexity increases exponentially with the size of the IT landscape and puts an enormous burden on testing teams to go above and beyond in planning and executing the required activities. Date: 2018 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-1-4939-7662-1_23 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7662-1_23 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Management for Professionals from Springer |
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