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## There is no system like production: Why you should test in production

DevFeed: [There is no system like production: Why you should test in production](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/there-is-no-system-like-production-why-you-should-test-in-production-39941.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/testing-in-production/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2021-12-11T12:27:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [software-development-software-testing-developer-productivity-software-craft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development-software-testing-developer-productivity-software-craft.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tests.md>)

### AI overview

The article argues that staging and pre-production environments cannot fully reproduce production conditions, so teams should supplement automated pre-release testing with controlled tests in production. It discusses periodic checks and gradually rolling changes out to internal or test users using release toggles.

### Source excerpt

There is no system like production: Why you should test in production Shipping software without testing sounds scary. And this is also, what this article is not about. Organisations spend a lot of time and money to make sure that code is as much error-free as possible, when it reaches production and affects users.