Deployed Confidence: The Testing in Production

How do testers know that the feature they tested on stage is working perfectly in production as well? If something breaks in production, how will you know? The panic mode starts when your staging test results do not reflect current production behavior. Right? And you started doubting your testing skills when finally the user reported a bug to you.

Have you tried testing in production? Yes you heard it right, “Testing in PRODUCTION”. Once you start doing testing in production, you will see accuracy of test results, your tests will run faster due to elimination of bad data, and you will have higher confidence before releases. This can be accomplished through feature flagging, canary releases, and data cleanup.

You will leave this talk with strategies to understand the steps to achieve production testing before making your feature live, and to shift your company’s testing culture, so you can provide the best possible experience to the end users. This talk is beneficial because too many people think that testing should be done in staging but not in production and now this is high time to pull out people from their old mindset of testing into a new testing world. At the end of the day, we don’t care if your features work in staging, we care if they work in production.