Posts by bringbackthebiff 2 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2016
Proper testing significantly de-risks delivery and the money spent on testing should be proportional to the potential impact if the product goes TITSUP when it goes out the door - no need to always sweat the small stuff, but for something as important to a core business function like this..
If the PM or project team can't get that across to the beancounters, or the beancounters cock a deaf 'un, then there's going to be a problem!
The least they could have done would be to bork the mailer if they weren't testing mail functionality, or update all the email addresses on the system / via the mail server to a test email address / a council address belonging to a tester if they were.
Testing with live data is not illegal in the UK - would be v challenging to do UAT for large organisations if it was - but a stuff up like this will make it hard for HC IT bods to be allowed to do it in the future.
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