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	Podcast:		voiceofthedba's podcast
	Episode:		Building Test Data
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:03:46
	Publish Date:		2018-06-13 20:00:00
	Description:		One of the debates I've seen over the last few months is about test data in development environments. As I've been preparing for and learning more about the GDPR, it seems that many companies are concerned about holding sensitive data in their development systems. I think it's a valid concern, and I've often had to deal with this issue in the past, before any regulation impacted my work. In one of my early jobs, we stored emails from customers in a table. We also had an email feature for our application. Needless to say, we needed to test that, though we didn't want to obviously send emails to real customers when we were testing some sort of feature. I've done that and usually it results in a complaint and some scolding of the development staff. As a result, I learned to ensure that anytime we restored production to our QA system, we ran a script that would either change all emails to invalid values, or reset them to something we could use in a test system. In some cases, we'd reset them all to a specific address that we could check to see if the emails actually were sent. Read the rest of Building Test Data
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