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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Who needs tests when you have users?

The testing environment is production!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I work in state government and we insist on building our own systems. This is too fucking true and why it’s funny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean building our own systems?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

We build systems to manage day care licenses in the state instead of buying someone else’s product.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

We work in protoduction.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Technically there's no substitute for testing in production lol

Although ideally you'd want to test it beforehand...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There are so many more, and better!, options than testing in prod, but they take time, money, and talent and ain't no company got time for that (for a business segment that "doesn't generate revenue")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Been microsofts strategy for how long?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Probably too long. That was a philosophy I had at school and iirc the founders never finished school and started MS in a garage.