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I'm a bit confused by those replies.

David - If the system has to be up and running when it's needed, then is that a non-critical system?

Antares:

a) Scenario 2 isn't necessarily a customer system?

b) I don't follow your point about downtime and troubleshooting being a waste of time, energy and resources in the context of making some changes on either the live or the development version.

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Sorry should have stated specifically it is a waste in production. All should be tested prior ro production. If tested properly then no issue should arise (except the occasional unknown factor). The key is production should only be declared when all sanity checks have been done otherwise it is better to call it a BETA, meaning bugs may exist not neccessarily do exist.

And as for not being a customer system then it doesn't exist. If you build a system and store data to be used by anyone it is a customer system. Even if it is just one person. Otherwise you are talking Dev system or Test system. I am referring to Prod which means it is in use.

Edited by - antares686 on 01/21/2003 11:55:08 AM