Posts from “May 2026”

This is a story of how our standard testing practice came to byte us in the backend (enjoy the puns, folks. I’m here all week!)

There were some important technical updates we needed to make to a simple PHP application so we cloned it and set it up on a development server using phpapp.test as the domain. For this particular app to work, we had to update the database to change all occurrences of therealdomain.com to phpapp.test. Not a problem, any text editor with a search-and-replace functions will do.

The test app launched fine. The errors didn’t start appearing until we initiated the update process. We kind of expected errors but always hold out hope that things go smoothly.