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  1. Article series:

    Presentations:

    I’m more and more convinced that staging environments are like mocks - at best a pale imitation of the genuine article and the worst form of confirmation bias.

    It’s still better than having nothing - but “works in staging” is only one step better than “works on my machine”.

    • Part 1 - History of development and test environments
    • Part 2 - Optimizing for fast local development
    • Part 3 - Extending our Envoy mesh with staging overrides
    • Part 4 - Gating Deploys with Automated Acceptance Tests
  2. QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv.

    via https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings via https://www.sempf.net/post/On-Testing1.aspx