prodtesting

The foolish act of pushing untested software to production environments in order to "test" its functionality.

Similar to the "fuck it, run it" process in the high performance automotive field.

dev: We've got a new, super-awesome version of the gameserver that's going to fix all of our problems.

ops: Ok, let's get that out to QA and test it.

dev: Nah, we're prodtesting this one.

ops: ....

by badsfo May 14, 2014