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title: "you should test in production"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-test-in-production-75lg3glor
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--j2Y7v35yA
type: video:youtube
source: "Tom Delalande"
published: 2026-06-22T14:40:22.737Z
updated: 2026-06-22T16:27:25.434Z
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
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# you should test in production

**[Tom Delalande](https://daily.dev/sources/tom_delalande)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A controversial developer opinion (rare I know). But I honestly believe testing in production can be a good thing.

Obviously you should always test changes locally before checking them in, and this won't work for many cases. Like any changes to builds, infra or database migration. But feature toggles are an amazing, simple and underutilized tool in software engineering.

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