Common use of Testing Environments Clause in Contracts

Testing Environments. The Service Provider shall be responsible for implementing, securing, hosting and maintaining separate sandbox, development, QA, and User-acceptance testing (UAT) environments for development and testing for SAP and SAP GUI. For BOBJ and the Data Warehouse, the Service Provider shall be responsible for implementing, securing, hosting and maintaining separate development, QA, and UAT environments for development and testing. Additionally, the Service Provider shall ensure that at a minimum a UAT environment is available for all Subcontractor systems (i.e., Talent Management System and FSA / HSA system). The Department shall have view access into the QA environments. The State will have the same full update access into the UAT environments as they have in the production environment. The Department will ensure the State access to UAT will be controlled in a manner which avoids performance issues recognizing the UAT environment landscape is a copy of production at a point in time. The Service Provider will ensure that the UAT environment will have, at a minimum, connectivity to the Data Warehouse, the Talent Management System and the FSA / HSA system. The UAT environment will be automated to the extent possible for the following automated programs: payroll processing and inbound/outbound file interfaces. The Service Provider shall ensure that UAT environments (including Subcontractor test environments) are refreshed on a semi-annual basis by applying the latest production data to the environments, except for direct deposit data which shall not be loaded into any test environment unless the Service Provider is so directed by the Department. All environments shall be secured at all times.

Testing Environments. The Service Provider shall be responsible for implementing, securing, hosting and maintaining separate sandbox, development, QA, and User-acceptance testing (UAT) and production clone environments for development and testing for SAP, SAP and SAP GUI. For BOBJ GUI and the Data Warehouse, the Service Provider shall be responsible for implementing, securing, hosting and maintaining separate development, QA, and UAT environments for development and testing. Additionally, the Service Provider shall ensure that at a minimum a UAT environment is available for all Subcontractor systems (i.e., Talent Management System talent management system and FSA / HSA system). The Department shall have view access into the QA and the production clone environments. The State will have the same full update access into the UAT environments as they have in the production environment. The Department will ensure the State access to UAT will be controlled in a manner which avoids performance issues recognizing the UAT environment landscape is a copy of production at a point in time. The Service Provider will ensure that the UAT environment will have, at a minimum, connectivity to the Data Warehouse, the Talent Management System talent management system and the FSA / HSA system. The UAT environment will be fully automated to the extent possible except for the following automated programs: payroll processing and inbound/outbound file interfaces. The Service Provider shall ensure that UAT environments (including Subcontractor test environments) are refreshed on a semi-annual basis quarterly by applying the latest production data to the environments, except for direct deposit data which shall not be loaded into any test environment unless the Service Provider is so directed by the Department. All environments shall be secured at all times.