ST Patch Packet Upgrade Testing

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We're a hybrid ST Lawson (Payroll, HR, Absence Mgmt) and MT Landmark (CSF, SM, GHR, Talent) customer in the planning phase for our next Lawson Patch Packet Bundle Upgrade.  Our current version is PPB 17.2 and we'll be upgrading to the next available PPB per (KB2068125). 

We're looking for ideas and/or test plans on how other ST Lawson customers plan to test their Patch Packet Bundle upgrades.  Last year, we upgraded from PPB version 12 to 17.2 and were told by Infor to just test everything.  The products.zip file for our upgrade last year contained over 1,000 Readmes, which were not only impossible to read/decipher but also not helpful in identifying what was truly changing.  Our test plan last year was extensive and included performing two complete parallel pay cycles and testing all inbound / outbound interfaces to/from our Lawson Test system. 

Any thoughts or best practices for how other ST Lawson clients plan to efficiently test their next PPB upgrade would be welcomed and appreciated.   Thanks....

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I feel your pain. We just went to ST/MT cloud August of 2019 so this is our first LSF Patch Bundle. And it's impossible to know what truly has changed.  I can tell you what we have done (I'm IT).  Requested payroll/benefits to do things in TRN for whatever they do/did in PRD for same day/week... Run a full biweekly and monthly pay and compare to PRD (though they didn't do it as recommended as a parallel) tested any custom IPA's (we have some to import into pr39 and take pr198 data to get into FSM GL trans interface), new hire in ghr, push to lawson, set up with a generic login for benefits to do sign on as them and do enrollments.  We have an on premise data warehouse, so we tested the replication (db export) into our on prem.

So far no issues have been reported but the pay cycle isn't complete yet.. due by this Friday.

The look/feel did change to be a soho look/feel.  We had issues submitting jobs via Edge browser but that resolves with this update.

Your CSM should send you an xls workbook with a few things.  
my email is aschultice@genesishcs.org if you need to reach out.