[thelist] Testing a Webapp
Joel D Canfield
joel at spinhead.com
Mon Nov 27 14:39:32 CST 2006
> Create your dummy user(s) and data on a test version of the
> application. Bugfix on the test version (if you absolutely
> have to) and, once you're happy, recreate the database on
> test from the live server db content and structure. This
> automatically gives you a test db identical to live and also
> gets rid of all your junky test data.
last company I worked at, we lived, day in and day out, in a custom web
app. besides multiple test environs, we had a full-blown mirror of
production, as suggested here, and did final testing there. the only
failures were when either 1) someone failed to ensure true identicality
or 2) a live scenario came up which wasn't accounted for in staging
expensive, in both time and hardware/software/etc., but critical to the
business function.
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