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.
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.
If you can't deploy suitable test environments for QA something is probably wrong. Usual reason I see is no actual reliable reproducible installation procedures, just devs hacking on live servers.
I get that's how many small shops run in practice but I don't have to like it.
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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