Application migration validation – a holistic approach

It is important to verify that all aspects of the migrated application are performing as expected for the application to be certified as Cloud Ready. The following checklist with validation for key objectives can be handy to assess the production readiness of migrated applications:

• Application availability for use: Validate whether the authorized users can access the application and its services.
• Response-time as per SLAs: Validate whether the application and service performance under various loads is meeting the SLA consistently over a period of time.
• Environment and data management: Validate whether the application reference data, master data, and the transaction data is transitioned to cloud.
• Application functioning: Validate whether each component of each application functions as expected.
• Automated lifecycle management: Validate whether application instance is restored automatically in case of hardware failures. Also, whether...