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ISSUE #63 - June 24, 2018
Testing in production has only gotten trendier since we last looked at it! Let’s explore reasons to do TiP, its different kinds and phases, and post-deploy validation activities. The earlier TD post on this topic was here:
http://testersdigest.mehras.net/2017/02/12/testers-digest-2-testing-in-production.html
A quick overview of different kinds of production testing with a focus on post-deploy validation as a worthy kind of test.
http://automation-beyond.com/2017/05/25/on-testing-in-production/
The brilliant Charity Majors defends the practice of testing in production:
https://opensource.com/article/17/8/testing-production
Some reasons to do TiP:
https://iamalittletester.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/why-you-need-to-test-your-production-environment/
Two very comprehensive posts from Cindy Sridharan. The first one is a long discourse on production vs pre-production testing, with microservices in the title, but ideas can apply more broadly. A lot of debatable points here (such as: exploratory testing is pointless pre-production), but a worthy read.
https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/testing-microservices-the-sane-way-9bb31d158c16
This later post covers why staging != production, introduces 3 phases of testing in production (deploy, release, post release), and goes into detail on many TiP activities, including “tap compare” testing which was a new concept to me.
https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/testing-in-production-the-safe-way-18ca102d0ef1
Any software deployment is essentially a test in production. What should you monitor after a deploy?
https://stackify.com/monitor-software-deployment/
Worth learning: How phased code rollouts with feature flags work.
https://dzone.com/articles/beta-testing-with-feature-toggles-testing-in-produ
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