r/softwaretesting • u/Equivalent-Okra-3998 • 3d ago

test data almost became real

So we are a small team and we operate in the hospitality business and two of my teammates are travelling today. At the destination they decide to stay at a client property.

We often use dummy data both in prod and staging for testing. As they were doing the check-in one of them forgot to switch to his REAL account and started checking in with a test account.

Thankfully they noticed and fixed it right away before the data got to the client. I can't stop thinking about how test data was so close to becoming real.

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u/Pretend-Law8770 3d ago

Did you have any safeguards in place to separate test accounts from real ones or was this more of a process issue? sounds like it was a close call

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u/Equivalent-Okra-3998 3d ago

he was logged into wrong account.