Brief Introduction of Testing in Production Environment

Testing in Production Environment

Testing in production means we have to run all the test cases in production or live environment. In this type of testing, we need to focus on that area where the functionality should never change. It should work as it is. no changes should be accepted.
First of all our focus on production testing is to verify

those sensitive functionality should work as per the-end user expectation. testing in the production environment is important because if a tester runs the cases in the live environment it means it ensures that the application will work as the same way it is working in the live environment.

Most of the time the testers have only testing environment to perform end to end testing, usually, they don't have the live or production environment to perform testing because it considered as the risky process. It is mainly used for SMOKE and SANITY testing.

How should Testing in Production Environment be Performed?

The main motive of production testing is to ensure that the application is stable an work as per the end user expectation. the testing team should get support to add production testing in their testing cycle. the testers should prepare a sanity checklist on the daily basis so that they can verify the major functionality on production.
the testing team must ensure that the testing

live environment must be verified on daily basis for the quality purpose of the application.

Guidelines while testing in a production environment:

1. Bring own test data.
2. The naming you use for the testing purpose should be 
3. Do not touch existing customer's data.
4. Create own credentials to access the application
5. Don't do load testing in production.

Advantages of Testing in Production Environment: 

1. Observe the performance of an application in real-time scenarios where the user keeps changing the data.
2. Verify the edge cases to check the network failure, weak connections.
3. Check bugs and malicious attacks.

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