Every enterprise I’ve ever worked for, including corporate giants running the backbones of modern finance ran tests on production. Post deploy smoke tests, fail over tests, small group alphas, test migration/roll backs etc.
Not being confident in your test plan is a sign of immaturity not maturity because at some point you are going to need to validate how something behaves in production.
There are a wide range of processes, procedures and software architectures to get you to being confident that your production testing is doing more good than harm for your customers but in an environment where you can deploy new software you are going to do some testing in production.
Not being confident in your test plan is a sign of immaturity not maturity because at some point you are going to need to validate how something behaves in production.
There are a wide range of processes, procedures and software architectures to get you to being confident that your production testing is doing more good than harm for your customers but in an environment where you can deploy new software you are going to do some testing in production.