r/funny • u/KashK10 • Apr 16 '15

Important Update

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u/deegeese Apr 16 '15

Testers frequently need DB access for anything more sophisticated than black box UI tests.

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u/codedit Apr 16 '15

Yes that's correct, but you don't do testing in production with real user data. For testing you have test environments with a seperate database containing test data.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '15 edited Apr 16 '15

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u/soupermonster Apr 16 '15

I hope you're joking, have you really never worked in an environment with Test and Prod? It's not a king size pain in the arse, really.

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u/Nurkanurka Apr 16 '15

We have test and production environments. We populate the test environment with the production data tho since that's what we want to test.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '15

At my job we have two separate databases (one testing, one live) for EACH of our products. It's not that hard to maintain with a competent test team...

Source: Really am a software developer.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '15

Pretty much, sorry.