About this task
Be sure that you already have the appropriate build management project hierarchies. Creating an integration testing project is described in Creating the integration testing projects. Creating a system testing project is described in Creating the system testing projects.
Note: The use of installation projects is optional. Consider the needs of your team before creating them.
Procedure
- Create a task to create an installation project, and leave yourself as the resolver.
The newly created task is set as the current task.
- Copy a project to be the installation project.
- Create the new project.
- Set the properties for the new project.
- Click OK.
- Create directories in the new project to match your installation area.
- Add the product objects (and any other objects that are part of your deliverable) to your installation project using drag and drop or copy and paste.
- View the appropriate build management project in the Work pane.
- Add your new installation project to the build management project hierarchy.
Refer to 4 above.
- Extend your build scripts and makefiles to construct the installation image.
- Complete the current task.
- Perform an integration test cycle on your integration testing projects.
- Copy a system testing project from the baseline installation project.
- Perform a system testing test cycle on your system testing project.
Note: Complete this process for each platform, checking out integration and system testing project for each platform.