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What's even worse is when they have different validations in different places. I've had ticketmaster accept my name+tm@gmail.com email at sign up, only to never
by georgecmu 16y ago
What's even worse is when they have different validations in different places. I've had ticketmaster accept my name+tm@gmail.com email at sign up, only to never let me log in after that first time.
- raganwald 16y agoI ran into this with a flight reservation system. I lost hundreds of dollars and missed my flight when the front end accepted my email address but the back end didn't send me a confirmation. A plausible explanation given to me was that the web application worked just fine, but it sent the data to some COBOL-ish back end written long before the advent of web bookings, and the integration code mangled my email address when it stuffed it into some data field that was never intended to hold an email address. This is why any real-world system needs end-to-end integration testing and not just unit testing :-)