One of the key challenges faced by organizations deploying enterprise wide analytics solution is the maintenance and upgrade of its applications. Most organizations follow an agile development methodology that entails frequent releases with new content as well as routine upgrades, patches, fixes and security updates. Depending on the complexity of the application, you need to invest a significant amount of time, energy and man-power to ensure that none of the existing reports, dashboards and underlying data is adversely impacted by any of these maintenance tasks.
The attached whitepaper describes a methodology and best practices for a platform approach to automate testing of analytics applications. KB483132
