Introduction to FOS Best Practices Guide
The TIBCO Fulfillment Orchestration Suite (FOS) Best Practices Guide provides a variety of best practice guidelines that you can utilize throughout your TIBCO FOS installation. These best practcies are based on the experiences gained at large and small customer sites.
The TIBCO FOS best practices described in the guide include agreeing on requirements to ensure a successful project implementation and determining hardware and software configuration guidelines.
Architecture best practices and design considerations are also addressed so that the implementation gets started on the right foot.
The guide also addresses configuration management which involves knowing the state of all artifacts that make up your system or project, managing the state of those artifacts, and releasing distinct versions of a system.
Performance testing, usually the last resort to catch application defects, is also covered in the guide. It is labor intensive and usually only catches coding defects. Architecture and design defects may be missed. One method to catch some architectural defects is to simulate load testing on the application before it is deployed and to deal with performance issues before they become problems.