Status Update Page
mdlandrec.net Version 3 Roll Out and plats.net Enhancement
Updated January 8, 2010
mdlandrec.net Version 3 Roll Out
Internal and external functional testing has been ongoing since September 17, 2009. Functional testing is intended to reveal user issues that will need to be addressed and corrected before the system can "go live". To date, we have received very little input from our testing community. This might be a very good sign, indicating that the system is as robust and user friendly as we hoped. But it also may mean that testers haven't been hitting the system hard over the last couple of months. At this point we need to test the system's ability to handle a large volume of concurrent users by widening our circle of testers. This will assure us that the system is robust enough to handle the 100,000+ registered users currently accessing Version 2.
To that end, last month, we sent out an email to 13,000 randomly selected current system users, asking them to sign up as Version 3 testers. Fewer than 700 individuals applied for user IDs and passwords in response. This third round of testing has been completed. While response has been underwhelming, some significant problems have been identified with the new user registration module that require code modification. After code corrections have been made, a fourth round of testing will be needed to test code modifications.
Assuming all goes well, our best case target timeline for roll out is now as follows:
To be completed by 1/15/2010
Code changes made to make registration process more user friendly
Test Version 3 with Fortres and Cooler JIS
During week of 1/18/2010
Provide Barbara Hansman with the Archives script for internal functional
testing
Barbara to modify and distribute testing script to the Clerks
Archives to e-mail to an additional 15,000 current subscribers asking
them to assist with testing
Conduct fourth round of external testing to make sure code changes
have corrected identified problems without creating new ones
During week of 1/25/2010
Set up one public access PC in each courthouse to access version
3 JIS
Set a specific date/time for simultaneous functional testing in the
courthouses Circuit Court Clerks Association
Correction of any functional problems identified by testing
During week of 2/1/2010*
Notification e-mail to all current subscribers alerting them to the
upcoming switch to version 3 - targeted for 2/10/2010 urging them to
apply for new user IDs
and passwords prior to that date
Ongoing functional testing in the courthouses
Correction of any functional problems identified by testing
During week of 2/8/2010*
Make the switch to Version 3 so users are directed there as of Wednesday
morning, 2/10/2010
* Planned February activities are dependent upon successful completion
of functional testing in January. If testing should reveal major issues
that must be addressed before roll out can be successful, then the target
roll out date of 2/10/2010 may have to be pushed back.
plats.net Enhancement
We have been able to make substantial enhancements to plats.net. Our main focus has been on Worcester County plats, where Mr. Hales kindly volunteered to act as a pilot. Here are some of the improvements we have accomplished this fiscal year with plats.net: