alt Hacker NewsIf your CI DB is not 100% in parity with the real db -- you are setting yourself up for disaster. It is a false sense of security.
Same reason I wince when people say things like "we just use SQLite in tests, but our real db is mysql/psql/etc"
The test results have no merit if they are testing against a glorified mock.
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justincormack • yesterday at 3:13 PM
You can have fast tests and slow. Having fast tests to make progress working on features is important.
You could have the fast tests that catch 99,9999% of the issues on feature branches and just run the real slow test before putting in prod.