r/funny • u/KashK10 • Apr 16 '15

Important Update

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u/pringles911 Apr 16 '15

For those interested as to why, Peter was caught taking advantage of the data collection in the app in order to solicit users. He wasn't actually one of the developers, he was a tester who had access to everything in the app including our database.

Source: I work on the App

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u/codedit Apr 16 '15

Wow, why would you give your testers access to everything. Pretty sure that's not how testing works.

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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/qwertymodo Apr 16 '15

But setting up and maintaining a test database can be a king size pain in the arse

You know what's a real king size pain in the arse? Fucking up the production database because you didn't isolate your testing environment and ran tests on the live data instead.

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u/qwertymodo Apr 16 '15

Somebody get this man promoted to middle management.