While this won’t fit the bill for all your Citrix XenApp deployments I wanted to share what I like to test at the end of a new deployment as I couldn’t find much online when I looked for guidance. I’d very much welcome any suggestions to make this more comprehensive and will add them to a future edits of this post.

For a bit of a background this deployment involved installing new HP Servers and  deploying VMWare ESXi. Hence the test sections relating to those. There was very minimal NetScaler Access Gateway reconfiguration to reference the new StoreFront servers.

System Testing

HPE iLO and Hardware Status

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/HPE/001	From a PC connected to the internal data network login via http://ESX01-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL. Confirm login to iLO interface succeeds.
UAT/HPE/002	From a PC connected to the internal data network login via http://ESX02-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL. Confirm login to iLO interface succeeds.
UAT/HPE/003	From a PC connected to the internal data network login via http://ESX03-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL. Confirm login to iLO interface succeeds.
UAT/HPE/004	From a PC connected to the internal data network login via http://ESX04-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL. Confirm login to iLO interface succeeds.
UAT/HPE/005	On ESX01-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL confirm System Health displayed as OK and no hardware or configuration issues are shown.
UAT/HPE/006	On ESX04-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL confirm System Health displayed as OK and no hardware or configuration issues are shown.
UAT/HPE/007	On ESX03-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL confirm System Health displayed as OK and no hardware or configuration issues are shown.
UAT/HPE/008	On ESX04-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL confirm System Health displayed as OK and no hardware or configuration issues are shown.
UAT/HPE/009	On ESX01-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL launch remote console and confirm connection to the server.
UAT/HPE/010	On ESX02-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL launch remote console and confirm connection to the server.
UAT/HPE/011	On ESX03-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL launch remote console and confirm connection to the server.
UAT/HPE/012	On ESX04-ILO.DOMAIN.LOCAL launch remote console and confirm connection to the server.

VMWare

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/ESX/001	From a PC connected to the internal network browse to https://esx01.domain.local and confirm successful logon.
UAT/ESX/002	From a PC connected to the internal network browse to https://esx02.domain.local and confirm successful logon.
UAT/ESX/003	From a PC connected to the internal network browse to https://esx03.domain.local and confirm successful logon.
UAT/ESX/004	From a PC connected to the internal network browse to https://esx04.domain.local and confirm successful logon.
UAT/ESX/005	Login to https://vcenter.domain.local and confirm ESX01, ESX02, ESX03 and ESX04 are all being managed by vcenter.
UAT/ESX/006	While connected to https://vcenter.domain.local confirm no alerts which would indicate hardware or configuration issues are shown on cluster “XenAPP”.	Success
UAT/ESX/007	While connected to https://vcenter.domain.local confirm virtual machine start up settings are set as expected.	Success

NetScaler

The NetScaler tests are focused on newly configured functionality only such as NetScaler Gateway and load balancing virtual servers.

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/NS/001	Login via http://citrix.company.org.uk
UAT/NS/002	Launch published desktop via http://citrix.company.org.uk Standard Desktop Staging Desktop Finance Desktop IT Desktop
UAT/NS/003	Log off http://citrix.company.org.uk
UAT/NS/004	Disconnecting network on STOREFRONT01 results in requests being directed to STOREFRONT02
UAT/NS/005	Disconnecting network on STOREFRONT02 results in requests being directed to STOREFRONT01
UAT/NS/006	Browser requests sent to http://citrix.company.org.uk are redirected to https://citrix.company.org.uk/Citrix/company/PNAgent/config.xml. This is to allow for redirection of HP Thin Clients which can’t be reconfigured.		I would normally test a simple http to https redirection
UAT/NS/007	Login via https://myoffice.company.org.uk  (from an external network)
UAT/NS/008	Launch published desktop via https://myoffice.company.org.uk (from an external network) Standard Desktop Staging Desktop Finance Desktop IT Desktop
UAT/NS/009	Log off https://myoffice.company.org.uk (from an external network)
UAT/NS/010	Configure an iOS device for https://myoffice.company.org.uk and launch desktop.
UAT/NS/011	Configure Citrix Receiver for Windows for https://myoffice.company.org.uk and launch desktop.
UAT/NS/011	From vSphere web client confirm NetScaler01 and NetScaler02 have been moved over to the new XenApp cluster.

Storefront

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/SF/001	Published desktops and applications enumerated as expected following logon to https://citrix.company.org.uk
UAT/SF/002	Login to Desktop Appliance site https://citrix.company.org.uk/Citrix/StoreDesktopAppliance
UAT/SF/003	Desktop is auto launched upon login to https://citrix.company.org.uk/Citrix/StoreDesktopAppliance
UAT/SF/004	Log off from https://citrix.company.org.uk/Citrix/StoreDesktopAppliance
UAT/SF/005	Confirm successful launch of Application1
UAT/SF/006	Confirm successful launch of Application2
UAT/SF/007	Confirm successful launch of Application3
UAT/SF/008	Confirm successful launch of Application4

Desktop Delivery Controllers

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/DDC/001	Run Site configuration test in Citrix Studio and confirm no warnings or failed tests are identified.
UAT/DDC/002	Run machine catalog test in Citrix Studio against each catalog (Standard Desktop, IT Desktop, Finance Desktop, Staging Desktop, Application delivery) and confirm no warnings or failed tests are identified.
UAT/DDC/003	Run delivery group test in Citrix Studio against each delivery group (Standard Desktop, IT Desktop, Finance Desktop, Staging Desktop, Published Applications) and confirm no warnings or failed tests are identified.
UAT/DDC/004	Sessions are distributed across session hosts.
UAT/DDC/005	Correct license information is displayed for the farm in Citrix Studio (500 XenApp Enterprise concurrent licenses).
UAT/DDC/006	Disconnecting network on CTXDEL01 results in requests being handled by CTXDEL02.
UAT/DDC/007	Disconnecting network on CTXDEL01 results in requests being handled by CTXDEL02.

Citrix License Server

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/LIC/001	XenApp Enterprise Licenses shown in License Administration Console.
UAT/LIC/002	Users aren’t presented with any license related errors on logon.
UAT/DC/003	Members of “Domain Admins” can successfully login to the License Administration Console. To be tested against Patrick’s logon.

Terminal Services Licensing

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/RDS/001	Logon to lic01.domain.local, open RD Licensing manager and confirm Windows Server 2012 are present and license server activated.
UAT/RDS/002	Logon to lic01.domain.local, open RD Licensing manager and confirm licenses are being issued by the server.
UAT/RDS/003	Users aren’t presented with any license related errors on logon on to session host servers.
UAT/RDS/004	Run gpresult on a session host and confirm License servers to use is set to LIC01.

Citrix Director

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/DIR/001	Members of Domain Admins can login to Citrix director at http://ctxdir01.domain.local/director/  to be tested with Patrick’s account.
UAT/DIR/002	All session hosts are visible to from Citrix Director.
UAT/DIR/003	Confirm successful session shadowing.

Local Host Cache

The Local Host Cache (LHC) feature allows connection brokering operations in a XenApp or XenDesktop Site to continue when site database outage occurs. To simulate an outage the SQL instance sql01\CITRIX will be stopped.

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/LHC/001	Verify a new connection can be made to the farm by launching published desktop.

Client Testing

This section covers connectivity to the new Citrix XenApp 7.15 site from a variety of clients.

Internet Explorer Browser

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/IE/001	Login to https://citrix.company.org.uk. Confirm successful logon.
UAT/IE/002	Confirm desktops/applications are listed as expected.
UAT/IE/003	Launch publish desktop and confirm successful launch.
UAT/IE/004	Log out from desktop without errors.
UAT/IE/005	Log out from Storefront without errors.

IGEL Thin Client

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/IG/001	Login to https://citrix.company.org.uk. Confirm successful logon.
UAT/IG/002	Confirm desktops/applications are listed as expected.
UAT/IG/003	Launch publish desktop and confirm successful launch.
UAT/IG/004	Log out from desktop without errors.
UAT/IG/005	Log out from Storefront without errors.

HP Thin Client

Task ID	Task Description	Result (Success/Fail)	Remedial Action Required / Notes
UAT/HP/001	Login to https://citrix.company.org.uk/Citrix/StoreDesktopAppliance. Confirm successful logon.
UAT/HP/003	Confirm desktop is auto launched as expected.
UAT/HP/004	Log out from desktop without errors.
UAT/HP/005	Log out from Storefront without errors.

User Testing

The client would normally define their testing criteria.

Overall Test Result	PASS/FAIL
All tests have been carried out successfully.
Test Plan results verified with
Customer Contact Signature
Date