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you joke, but I have to constantly tell our devs "no, you can't have actual prod data to test your queries against"

• groue 10y ago
  Fine, as long as you can produce replacement data with the desired qualities.
  • talaketu 10y ago
    it's called a test fixture.
    • solidninja 10y ago
      Frequently data produced by hand (by developers writing the tests) or randomly generated (by something like quickcheck) does not have all the edge cases you would encounter in real data. So there is some justification to having real data available - this is why in the finance space at least developer machines have relatively stringent restrictions placed on them compared to a lot of other organisations.
    • flukus 10y ago
      It must be a big test fixture to contain all the data of a production database.