Upgrading from Qualitia Automation Studio (QAS) for Web and Mobile 5.x, 6.x, or 7.x version to Qualitia Automation Studio v8.6.x includes the following steps:
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Ensure you have the valid product license activated for Qualitia.
Log on to the machine where Qualitia Server is installed and copy the QualitiaWDServer.exe to this machine.
Right-click QualitiaWDServer.exe and select Run as administrator.
The Welcome to the Qualitia Setup Wizard screen appears.
Do one of the following:
To upgrade the Qualitia Server, click Next.
To cancel the upgrade process, click Cancel.
It is recommended to use the updated product versions applying available product updates for seamless user experience.
All the database server details appear. All these fields are displayed in non-editable mode, click Next.
Click Next and you will see the master database name.
Select the Enable Dashboard option, if you want to enable Dashboard functionality.
For more information about the dashboards functionality, click here.Info Enabling this option, Qualitia consumes an additional database (except master and project databases) for managing data related to the dashboard functionality. Kindly make a note of it.
Enter the desired Dashboard Database name and click Next.
Info If you are upgrading from a previous QAS version to v8.2.x where some projects are integrated with TFS/Azure DevOps and their Test Case template file in the latest version of Qualitia have changed, the linked test cases metadata files are automatically upgraded to their latest versions. You can view the TFS/Azure DevOps integrated projects that are upgraded, and click Next.
The Project Details screen appears. You can view the projects selected for upgrade. Click Next.
Info Note: The projects for which the specified database user credentials lack some database privileges are highlighted in the red color as shown in the following figure:
Specify the Result Path to store results of the test cases executed outside Qualitia and click Next.
Tip Qualitia uses this folder to store results of test cases executed through CI Tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo), Build / Release Cycles from TFS/Azure DevOps, and offline package.
All the Qualitia clients should have read access to this directory.
Click Upgrade as shown in the following figure:
The Upgrade screen shows the upgrade progress for each project as shown below:
You can do the following actions:
Click Save Report to save the upgrade status of every project as an HTML file. After the report is saved, it opens automatically.
Click Show Logs to view the logs.
If some projects fail to upgrade, restore their backup, and then restart the upgrade process for them.
After all the projects are upgraded successfully, click Finish to exit the setup.
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To launch the Project Migration Utility:
Open cliOpen the Qualitia Installable.
Under the QualitiaProjectMigrationUtility folder, unzip the QualitiaProjectMigrationUtility.exe through 7-Zip file archiver only.
Execute the QualitiaProjectMigrationUtility.exe
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