What is ORT ? ORT is Operation Release Testing. This is part of the software release development cycle which helps to ensure the quality of the of the software being release. This type of testing is more relevant to new applications being released as this allows users to conduct testing in the live production environment. Typically on the release day, some testing will be done in the production environment to determine if the changes or new application is working as was tested in the user acceptance testing (UAT) in the development environment. ORT will normally be allocated a longer period where the business users will test in the production environment. A few reasons why a longer period of testing in the production environment is a good practice : development environments can replicate closely the production environment but never exactly due to budget contraints network connectivity differrences differrences in traffic volumes differrent traffic timings availability of ...