Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: CS instead of math? Date: 2 Jun 2016 16:43:09 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <573fb25c.33979790@nntp2.rawbw.com> <574dc948.9600174@nntp2.rawbw.com> <20160601071739.5d9b5c4ab1de55f8b25bac32@eircom.net> <3veukbhh8jmmstu0286ek84m82ct0q84kt@4ax.com> <976535801.486509118.985755.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <573fb25c.33979790@nntp2.rawbw.com> <574dc948.9600174@nntp2.rawbw.com> <20160601071739.5d9b5c4ab1de55f8b25bac32@eircom.net> <3veukbhh8jmmstu0286ek84m82ct0q84kt@4ax.com> <976535801.486509118.985755.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net JD03eRXdxhr3oDc5aA71QgnY/shC/uWVbJi/FHHLSAAQYdDuXk Cancel-Lock: sha1:WxQOaFt9uHnp2o2ug6ZKVwIR+4s= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:164328 On 2016-06-02, jmfbahciv wrote: > Andy Burns wrote: >> Huge wrote: >> >>> I spent a LOT of time before retiring (last year) >>> working on restricting the use of live data in testing >> >> One system I look after (the o/s and networking parts rather than the >> software) takes a nightly copy of the live database into the test >> database, in the process it mangles all the human readable names, >> addresses, and identifiers. This gives the same size of data with the >> same relations between rows in the tables to work on. >> >> I think it uses a temporary hash to form the mangled version then throws >> it away before committing to the test database, I suppose the mangling >> could be subverted by the developer but he (one left from the original >> team of three) could subvert the system anyway. >> >> It allows testing or demonstrating of problems to the likes of me >> without seeing patient data, and when I need to test printing it ends up >> looking like it's in Klingon, hopefully no pharmacy would ever issue >> such a methadone prescription! >> > How do you test anything which needed to be sorted if all the fields > have junk in them? That's one of the reasons that data anonymisation is very hard ... :o) -- Today is Pungenday, the 7th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.