How to test a new sas version

[alepage]

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,

[AhmedAl_Attar]

run either of these two Procs

proc product_status; run;
proc setinit; run;

[ballardw]

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@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,

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Check what?

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

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

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.