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I'm not sure it's practical to test this on a dev server with each update. All they really need to do is make sure "/" or sites ending with "google.com" and ma

• mechanical_fish 18y ago
  I'm not sure it's practical to test this on a dev server with each update. I tell myself that all the time. And then I pause, and sigh, and load up the dev site anyway, just to make sure the home page has not exploded. Because sometimes it has. Typos happen. Brain farts happen. Obviously I wouldn't necessarily expect Google to test a dev server by hand every time they change some code. That procedure is for little people like me. [1] For something as important as Google I'd expect there to be a procedure whereby each new change gets pushed to a small group of boxes, which then run a few really simple automated acceptance tests ("If I do a search for a random term, do I get back a page with links that can actually be followed?") before the thing gets pushed live fifteen minutes later. Apparently I expect too much. Perhaps I'm overengineering this. Maybe it's okay if, a couple of times a decade, we just cripple half the Internet for 30 minutes and give 5% of the world's computer users a virus scare. --- [1] At least until I get lazier (in the Larry Wall sense of the word) and write some more scripts.