Upgrades using the Bin Zip file (Manual Installation)

Enterprise Tester, by default, is installed in your C:\Program Files\ or C:\Program Files (x86)\ directory, alongside any other programs you have installed.  The folder can be configured to reside on a different drive if you should choose; throughout this document we refer to this folder using the word %ProgramFiles% to avoid confusion.

Manual Upgrade (Bin Zip Installer)

Manual upgrades require you to be aware of framework upgrades, please refer to the Important Upgrade information at the top of this page.

To upgrade Enterprise Tester manually perform the following steps:

1. Download the Enterprise Tester installation files from EnterpriseTester-6.1.1946-Bin.

2. Back Up the following:
   
   

   • Enterprise Tester Database 
     • For downloaded trial users this can typically be found in %ProgramFiles%\Catch Limited\Enterprise Tester\Data

• • Enterprise Tester File Structure
    
    • Typically located in %ProgramFiles%\Catch Limited\Enterprise Tester\

If you don't want to back up the entire file structure, these are the specific files needed for restoration:

1. • Logging.config & Web.config Files
     
     • Typically located in %ProgramFiles%\Catch Limited\Enterprise Tester\Web
       
       
   • Search Index folder
     
     • Typically located in %ProgramFiles%\Catch Limited\Enterprise Tester\Web\app_data\Index
       
       
   • Attachments stored in your File System
     
     • Typically located in %ProgramFiles%\Catch Limited\Enterprise Tester\Data\Attachments\ 
       
       
       

2. Extract the files from the downloaded bin.zip file and copy all of the contents from the "\Web\ folder EXCLUDING the following:

   
   
   • \App_Data\ folder
   • Web.config file
   • Logging.config file
     
     

3. Navigate to %ProgramFiles%\Catch Limited\Enterprise Tester\Web folder and delete the existing folders of the same names as those copied above

4. Paste in the content copied in Step 2, choose to overwrite any files when prompted.

5. Using the command line navigate to the %ProgramFiles%\Catch Limited\Enterprise Tester\Web\Bin\ folder and run "Postinstalltasks.exe ziprelease".  Administrator permissions may be required.

6. Make sure the identity that runs Enterprise Tester (as seen in the IIS application pool configured during installation) still has write permissions to the "\data" and "\web\app_data\" directories.

7. Restart IIS

8. Start Enterprise Tester. Enterprise Tester may take a couple of minutes to start up, it will be applying database schema migrations to update the database structure.