[Pxtl]

How do you reconcile the first bullet point (polluting data with test data) vs Test In Production being the modern trend? Those sound irreconcilable.

[edgyquant]

Doesn’t this mean beta testing in prod? Development, at least everywhere I’ve worked, takes place on a separate db. For instance where I work atm we copy prod data to a staging db every couple of months and develop/test new features there before rolling them out. Any data coming from the beta test, in prod, is not really test data it is prod data and I don’t see why you’d want to remove it.

[allie1]

Include a cleanup step after each test?

[jerrysievert]

I find ROLLBACK to be a good fix for that.

[anonytrary]

is_fake column should do it.