RE: Test Development System Survey

You're a furniture company, not some silly bank that requires the source 
to be on the production system.  Why haven't you transferred your tools 
license to your testing machine?

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





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We have had our development and production environments on the same system
for quite some time and it is the pits.  Testing modifications requires
taking the time to ensure any program executed during the test does not
update production data and that any output created does not get printed on 
a
production printer.  In my opinion, this decreases programmer productivity
by a significant amount.  Then there is the occasional mistake when a test
job does update production data and the necessary correction thereof. That
hasn't happened in quite some time, though. 

We do have a test system now, but it's on a separate machine from our
development environment and has no development tools so it's use is 
limited.


I can't say for certain if or how development activity impacts the overall
performance of the system, but I doubt the impact is positive.

And yes, I do wish I had a separate system for development and testing 
with
all the necessary tools. 

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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We are currently using our AS400 production box for development as well 
(the
test/production systems are separated by logins/environment variables). 
How
many of you all also combine both on one machine, and has this caused
performance problems for you? Or do you use a test machine for development
specifically because of this (or wish you had one)?
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