According to the Silicon.com website, you should definitely not be using
live data for testing purposes (see link below). I seem to remember that
this article was prompted by the advice issued by Elizabeth France that
Stuart Cashmore has already alluded to. The piece makes for interesting, if
slightly sensationalist, reading:
http://www.silicon.com/news/500021/1/1035682.html?et=search
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From: Heath, Mark [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 August 2003 14:51
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Subject: [data-protection] DATA TESTING
Probably an obvious query, but has anyone tested the view that "live "data -
that will in due course be put on a new system & "used" shouldn't be test
run on that system? One view is that it will go on anyway so why worry,
another is that its a different purpose - testing the system cf providing a
service.
The latter tends to attract the narrow pedant response, but is I suspect
right - especially if the testing is being done by AN Other - the supplier
of the system or whoever......
If right, I wonder if others specify that suppliers of new IT systems must
test any new system with dummy data that they bring, not assume access to
our live data.......
Welcome views.
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