Personalization strategies for migrating values from stage to production

Hello:
Much of our JSP code will execute differently based on profile/property values stored in the personalization server. Keeping changes to code and personalization settings in sync is proving to be very difficult among our test, staging and production systems. What are some of the strategies used to solve property value migration from test to stage to production?
Our code is stored in a source code control system, but the property values are stored in a database (i.e., via the personalization server) and are changed via a GUI. The database changes are not stored in the source code control system, so the difficulty lies in keeping code and personalization settings in sync.
A typical scenario is that a developer will write some code and test it against the test environment. Any new property settings are added to the test server and set with appropriate values. Once the changes are tested and working, the code is checked into the codeline. However, the properties are not, so potential problems exist when the code is promoted to stage, and the QA group attempts to confirm the new functionality. The new properties, can/will then be added to the staging environment, but since this is done via a GUI, the values are cannot be guaranteed to be exactly the same in test and stag

Joe,
The PropertySet definitions are in XML. The definintions are under your
application-sync directory and under sub-directories such as: requests,
userprofiles, session, events, catalog for the specific usage of a
PropertySet.
Sincerely,
Daniel Selman
"Joseph Hui" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
Hi Daniel:
We are using WLP 4.0, but I did not know that the PropertySet values arein XML files.
What directory are they stored in?
Thanks alot,
Joe
"Daniel Selman" <[email protected]> wrote:
Joseph,
You omitted to say which version of the product you are using. In WLP 4.0
PropertySet definitions are stored as XML files and can be versioned
alongside your code and synchronized with a running server (to move from
a
developer's machine to staging or production). We moved to this approach
for
nearly all the business policy/configuration data -- for exactly the
reasons
you mentioned.
With versions of the product prior to 3.5 you will need to use 3rd-party
database utilities to ensure tables are exported, backed-up andsynchronized
as required.... Or upgrade! ;-)
Sincerely,
Daniel Selman
"Joseph Hui" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hello:
Much of our JSP code will execute differently based on profile/propertyvalues stored in the personalization server. Keeping changes to code and
personalization settings in sync is proving to be very difficult amongour
test, staging and production systems. What are some of the strategiesused
to solve property value migration from test to stage to production?
Our code is stored in a source code control system, but the propertyvalues are stored in a database (i.e., via the personalization server)and
are changed via a GUI. The database changes are not stored in the source
code control system, so the difficulty lies in keeping code and
personalization settings in sync.
A typical scenario is that a developer will write some code and test itagainst the test environment. Any new property settings are added to the
test server and set with appropriate values. Once the changes are tested
and working, the code is checked into the codeline. However, theproperties
are not, so potential problems exist when the code is promoted to stage,
and
the QA group attempts to confirm the new functionality. The newproperties,
can/will then be added to the staging environment, but since this is done
via a GUI, the values are cannot be guaranteed to be exactly the same in
test and stag

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