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  • June 14, 2018 at 8:13 am

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    kerry_hood - Thursday, June 14, 2018 3:58 AM

    Does anyone outside safety-critical industries (eg aerospace) actually work with proper test sets?  Perhaps it's just my (30-year) experience, but I'm yet to work anywhere which has proper test data sets (that are not yesterdays/last weeks' backup restored), and that's across insurance, pensions, oil exploration, finance,merchant banking, and logistic sectors... everywhere wants their software yesterday and is not prepared to put in the time/money/people to test it properly.

    We won't deploy to production without having gone through the full gauntlet including proper test data sets that have also gone through a strong validation gauntlet.  But, I do agree... according to a lot of the posts on this very forum and others, it seems that there are a whole lot of people that view testing (especially real QA/UAT) as some sort of annoyance ("expert" arrogance) on a daily basis.  Really spooky out there.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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