I recently saw a funny picture of a distinguished looking gentleman with the following caption: "I don't always test my code, but when I do, I do it in production." I laughed when I first saw it as did most of my fellow IT folks, but after a few minutes the humor went away. The sad reality is that a lot of code never gets properly tested until it gets released into a production environment. And that is too late.

Worst Case Scenario

Almost 20 years ago I took a position as a developer at a firm that was distributing software on floppy disks and CD's. They thought they were on the cutting edge of technology because they had beaten all competitors in their space to market.

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