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Try working at a place where all fixes are tested in production...

• hnmonkey 8y ago
  Can you describe what you guys do and your infrastructure? Is there a need to test in production or has it just not been important enough to prevent it?
  • user5994461 8y ago
    Everybody has a test environment, it's rare to also have a production environment.
    • hnmonkey 8y ago
      Your statement doesn't match up at all with what they said nor even make sense. What's the point of a business if you only have a test environment but rarely have a production environment? You seem to be assuming to know what their development process and infrastructure is like.
      • nevon 8y ago
        The joke is that if you don't have a testing environment, production is your testing environment, which in effect means that you don't have a production environment.
  • zamazingo 8y ago
    Sorry, cannot describe infrastructure (not a throwaway account). Prod and Test are out of sync in terms of mission critical software, Test is not powerful enough to handle Prod's tasks, and there is no formal procedure to use Test for testing. So Test is never actually used. When a bug is found in Prod, it's fixed on Prod, while it's live. By fix, of course I mean an iteration on and combinations of: qc: we found bug dev: it's not a bug qc: it is a bug: [insert evidence] dev: it's fixed now qc: no it's not dev: how about now? qc: no dev: and now? qc: yes but now this other thing is broken dev: here's another attempt, please check again qc: Prod is down dev: try it now qc: it's still broken, along with the other broken part, and now these three other parts are broken too ceo: it's fine, close this ticket