Common use of Test Environments Clause in Contracts

Test Environments. i. The Contractor shall have at least two (2) testing environments – one for Systems Integration Testing, and one for End to End testing. The environments shall use the appropriate data sets defined by the Department. ii. The Contractor shall use test environments are compliant with all security requirements defined by North Carolina State and the Department’s Privacy and Security Office to support testing with production data. iii. The Contractor shall have test environments available prior to conducting Systems Integration Testing. iv. The Contractor’s test environments must, as appropriate, be able to refresh test environments and ingest files the same size as would be required in a production environment and must be able to use data that would appear in a production environment. v. The Contractor’s test environment must, as appropriate, be able to simulate date and duration dependent processes.