topic How to test a new sas version in SAS Enterprise Guide

How to test a new sas version

alepage — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:12:45 GMT

Hello,

We were advise that our enterprise will update our sas version. I wonder if there were some documentation available on some tests we could carry out to check the new version.

Help will be appreciated.

Regards,

Re: How to test a new sas version

AhmedAl_Attar — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:43:03 GMT

run either of these two Procs

proc product_status; run;
proc setinit; run;

Re: How to test a new sas version

ballardw — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:54:07 GMT

@alepage wrote:

Hello,

We were advise that our enterprise will update our sas version. I wonder if there were some documentation available on some tests we could carry out to check the new version.

Help will be appreciated.

Regards,

Check what?

If you mean results then the basic approach is to run jobs on the same data in both systems and compare results.

Re: How to test a new sas version

SASKiwi — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:39:41 GMT

Usually validation tests are done as part of a SAS upgrade to confirm all product components are working correctly. This is not something you need to be concerned about.

You do need to test your own SAS programs however to ensure that they work without errors and they produce the same results. I find PROC COMPARE very useful for this. You will need datasets produced by both the old and new SAS versions to use this approach.