There is fire sale on "Test In Production" incidents this week. (Ok, truth is that some of them are a little crusty and stale so we just mark them way down and push them all out at a loss). To be completely fair, testing in production is vitally important. If you didn't do that, the only way you'd know if something is broken is when one of your paying customers finds out. I call that testing in production the expensive way. The only WTFy thing about these is that when you test in production, your customers shouldn't stumble across the messes.

"We don't often test, but when we do it's always in production" snarked Brad W. unfairly. "My phone gave its default alert noise mixed with... some sound that made it seem like the phone was damaged. This was the alert that appeared. "

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Next up, a smoking hot deal fresh off the press from Keith R. who gloated "Looks like Firestone Auto Care is testing in Production, and it's not going well! That's a lot more than 15/25/90 characters!"

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Followed by a slightly older option from Crunchyroll, supplied by Miquel B. who reasoned "It's nice to see Crunchyroll likes to test in production every once in a while. Last time I caught them doing so, the live date happened to be the same week as the current week, but this time, I needed to look back a week on the release schedule to spot it. If I didn't have a reason to look back a week, I would not have noticed it this time."

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Cole T. tersely typed "SL TEST DEFAULT".

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"I misspelled my search term and found this pricey test item on a live webstore," reported Mark T.

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Chemist Pieter learned about banana esters in high school chem class, but didn't expect banana testers in his daily news.

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Reaching back a bit, Paul D. noted of Engadget that "Either someone was testing in production or was submitting before finishing their article. The article was retrieved via my RSS reader and I saw it a few days later. At that moment, the original post did not exist anymore."

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And going even farther way back, we got a couple of simultaneous submissions about a leaky production test by Amazon Prime video, one from someone styled Larry and again by a Bastian H.

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Finally, honestly, this Error'd at Honest.com is probably well past its best-by date. But we're throwing it in to the bag at no charge. Seth N. thought "Honest company got a little too honest with this pop up modal after logging in" but we think honesty is just the best policy.

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