Upgrade from an earlier release of LiveCompare

If you are upgrading your server machine from an earlier release of LiveCompare, you will need to uninstall the earlier release before installing LiveCompare 2023.3 patch 9. All user data will be preserved if the same ‘User Data’ directory is chosen when installing the new version.

To uninstall LiveCompare, follow the instructions in the Installation and Configuration Guide for the earlier release. It is not necessary to uninstall the LiveCompare transports from SAP systems. Simply import the new transports to overwrite the existing objects.

Please note the following when upgrading from an earlier release of LiveCompare.

Back up the user data directory

Before upgrading to LiveCompare 2023.3 patch 9 or switching to a new database encryption configuration, back up the user data directory on your LiveCompare server by carrying out the following steps.

  1. Make sure no users are logged in to LiveCompare, and that no workflows are currently running.

  2. Stop the Tricentis LiveCompare Application Server service. This can be done by opening a command prompt with Administrator privileges on the LiveCompare server, and running net stop rnserver.

  3. Run regedit on the LiveCompare server and navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tricentis\LiveCompare\5.3\Settings folder.

  4. Take a note of the UserDataDir value. This is the location of the LiveCompare user data directory.

  5. Back up the directory referred to by the UserDataDir value.

  6. Restart the Tricentis LiveCompare Application Server service by running net start rnserver from the command prompt.

Update custom apps and workflows that use Release Streams

Release Streams from LiveCompare 4.8 and 4.6 have been renamed as Pipelines. When upgrading to LiveCompare 2023.3 patch 9 from these earlier releases, any existing Release Streams are automatically converted to Pipelines. However, if you have any custom apps or workflows that use Release Stream parameters, these will need to be reworked to use Pipeline parameters.

Create new Smart Impact app variants

In releases of LiveCompare earlier than 4.8.0, the RFC Destinations and Test Repository used by the Smart Impact app were each provided as a separate parameter. However, in LiveCompare 2023.3 patch 9, RFC Destinations and Test Repositories used by the app (as well as Test Repository search, requirements and execution paths) are provided in a Pipeline. If you have upgraded to LiveCompare 2023.3 patch 9 from an earlier release and you have existing variants of the Smart Impact app, these variants will not work with the new app because they do not include Pipelines.

The Smart Impact App Variants Report workflow in the Tools templates folder generates an Excel report which includes the details for each of your earlier Smart Impact app variants. This report should be reviewed and used to create one or more Pipelines to cover each of the RFC Destination and Test Repository configurations required to perform each of your earlier analyses. These Pipelines should be used to create and run new variants of the Smart Impact app.

Upgrade Tosca Test Repositories

LiveCompare 2023.3 patch 9 supports managed workspaces only. A managed workspace is one that is derived from a Tosca Server Repository workspace. To upgrade any existing Tosca Test Repositories, you will need to create Tosca Server Repository workspaces for them based on a common repository, and then edit the Test Repository definitions in LiveCompare to provide new connection details, for example a client ID and a client secret. This can be done from the Guided Configuration - Test Repositories screen, or from the Edit Test Repository screen in the LiveCompare studio.

Continuous impact analysis

If you have upgraded from LiveCompare 4.8 or earlier and have scheduled runs of the Configurator Impact Analysis or Security Impact Analysis workflows from your earlier release, note that the reports generated by these earlier workflows will not be listed in the Reports utility. You should run the Guided Configuration Migration Assistant workflow from the Tools templates folder and review the workflows that are currently scheduled.

The Guided Configuration’s Commit Configuration process may be used to schedule the Configurator Impact Analysis, Developer Impact Analysis and Security Impact Analysis workflows delivered with this release of LiveCompare. Results from these workflows will be listed in the Reports utility.

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