Developing and testing

[Eric Shepherd]

So, here's a question:

Since we have lost the ability to get database dumps for testing
purposes, much of the testing that needs to be done is hampered. That
includes the kinds of tests done while writing code, to make sure your
code is progressing properly.

In order to better be able to do that kind of work, I have an idea and
I'd like to see if anyone can shoot it down:

Can we work with IT build a way to stage a temporary VM behind the VPN,
using production data (whether anonymized or not, although probably
preferably the former), for development purposes?

This would only be available to Mozilla staff, of course, but it would
be better than nothing.

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Eric Shepherd
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[Luke Crouch]

Is that different from the staging server? AIUI, staging has anonymized
production data in the Moz data-center.

If you mean coding work on data, I much prefer to do all my coding work
on my local machine or at least a vm on my local machine.

Would anyone else get use out of another vm like this?

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[Eric Shepherd]

Luke Crouch wrote:
> Is that different from the staging server? AIUI, staging has anonymized
> production data in the Moz data-center.
>
> If you mean coding work on data, I much prefer to do all my coding work
> on my local machine or at least a vm on my local machine.
>
> Would anyone else get use out of another vm like this?

Well, I keep hearing talk about how working on a local VM and testing
when you have no data to test with is difficult or impractical, so my
thinking was that if we had a secure VM that only the core dev team
could access, perhaps the security folks would be willing to allow us to
use production data there.

That would certainly be better than not being able to properly test your
work, no?

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Eric Shepherd
Developer Documentation Lead

Mozilla Corporation
Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/