AUTOMATIC CHECK OF SEARCH CONFIGURATION CHANGES

The invention relates to a method for automatically checking configuration changes intended to be applied to a search configuration. of a search engine of a search service. The method comprises creating a test search configuration, which comprises a copy of the search configuration. The intended configuration changes are applied to the copy of the search configuration. A set of sample documents and a set of test search queries are provided. The test search queries are executed on the set of sample documents using the test search configuration and performance indicators are determined for the execution. If the performance indicators satisfy a predefined criterion, the intended configuration changes are accepted for application to the search configuration.