Applying product updates will give you an enhanced experience of working with Qualitia Automation Studio.

Prerequisites

• • Qualitia WebDriver 5.x or above

  • It is strongly recommended to backup Qualitia server databases (Master, Project, and Result Databases).

  • If MySQL database server is installed on Linux machine, ensure that the values of column ProjectName and ProjectDBName names are in the lowercase under Master Project database in the table tblprojects. Entering project names in uppercase may cause failing upgrade process.

  • Ensure port 8887 and 8889 are open and accessible from the machine where you are installing Qualitia Server.

  • If the number of projects to be upgraded is more than 50, increase the max_connections limit from MySQL database configuration settings. For more information about increasing the limit, refer to Troubleshoot the Issues section.

  • Close all the instances of Qualitia Automation Studio and Internet Explorer before starting the upgrade process.

  • If Qualitia Automation Studio is open, the upgrade process closes all the active Qualitia instances. If you have multiple Qualitia instances open, ensure to save the changes and close all the Qualitia instances before starting the upgrade process. For a detailed list of prerequisites, refer to the Prerequisites and Configurations section.
    
    

Upgrading the Qualitia Server

Note: Ensure that you take back up for all the projects. You need to restore the backup of the projects that failed to upgrade. 

To update the Qualitia Server:

1. Ensure you have the valid product license activated for Qualitia.
2. Log on to the machine where Qualitia Server is installed and copy the QualitiaWDServer.exe to this machine.
3. Right-click QualitiaWDServer.exe and select Run as administrator.
   The Welcome to the Qualitia Setup Wizard screen appears.
   
4. Do one of the following:
   • To upgrade the Qualitia Server, click Next.
   • To cancel the upgrade process, click Cancel.
5. 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.
   
   
   
   
6. Click Next and you will see the master database name.

7. Select the Enable Dashboard option, if you want to enable Dashboard functionality.
   For more information about the dashboards functionality, click here.

   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. 

8. Enter the desired Dashboard Database name and click Next.
   
   

   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.

9. The Project Details screen appears. You can view the projects selected for upgrade. Click Next.

   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:
   
   

   Click Save Report. The report shows the missing privileges that you must assign to the database user. Else, you cannot proceed to upgrade the QAS projects. 

10. Specify the Result Path to store results of the test cases executed outside Qualitia and click Next.

    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.

    
    
    

11. Click Upgrade as shown in the following figure:
    
12. The Upgrade screen shows the upgrade progress for each project as shown below:
    
13. You can do the following actions:
    1. Click Save Report to save the upgrade status of every project as an HTML file. After the report is saved, it opens automatically.
    2. Click Show Logs to view the logs.
14. If some projects fail to upgrade, restore their backup, and then restart the upgrade process for them.
15. After all the projects are upgraded successfully, click Finish to exit the setup.
    
    

Upgrading the Qualitia Client

Once the administrator has updated Qualitia Server, other Qualitia users can update respective clients.
Note: Close all the Internet Explorer instances and do not open them during the Qualitia Client upgrade process.

To update Qualitia Client:

1. Log on to the machine where you want to upgrade Qualitia client. 
2. Copy the QualitiaWDClient.exe from the update package to the machine.
   
3. Double-click the QualitiaWDClient.exe to start the update process.
4. Double click the QualitiaWDClient.exe to start the Qualitia Client update process.
5. After the upgrade process is completed successfully, click Finish.