Understanding The Testing In Production

Testing in Production(TiP) is defined as performing different tests by the testers in the production environment. Testing in Production is very essential because testers have to find bugs in the live environment. Most of the companies don't have budget to create an environment which is the same as production environment so that’s why TiP become an important part in software testing. 

Before proceeding further, first we can discuss the different environments in software life cycle: 

Development Environment – it provides developers to create software having development servers & databases as it is a developer’s workstation where they can make changes. 

Test Environment – In this environment, testers find bugs and report to the developers to make changes as per the requirement. 

Pre-Production Environment – it is an environment which is quite similar to actual production environment 

Production Environment – it an environment where software going live for end users. 

The different environment has different priorities to test the software and it is very expensive to maintain all these environments. Tester ensures that bugs are identified and resolved before the software go live and use by the end users. 

TiP provides a proper way to perform testing using the production site and real users which helps the tester to perform testing and get meaningful results. It helps to reduce the risk of stability issues in the production environment. 

Importance of TiP: 

Developer makes the changes as per the requirement in the software and deploys the build on production without verifying with testers just to keep the software running on production and these changes result in lots of bugs in production. So, in this case, TiP helps to perform testing on production and make desirable changes before deploying the application on production. 

The tip is a powerful technique to help us build quality software.