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Commented out the credit card charging part of the order processing pipeline during testing and pushed it to production.



Ah, almost like a colleague's story. He entered the payment provider's test backend credentials and pushed to production. A few months later, the high-end-ish fashion company whose shop was outsourced to us said a customer of theirs called to ask them when they were going to bill her credit card for a purchase made weeks earlier...


Surely this couldn't happen with any kind of reasonable testing?


Automatic tester? I hardly know 'er!




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