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The more differences there are, the more likely there will be bugs

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+title: The more differences there are, the more likely there will be bugs
+date: 2024-12-26
+permalink: daily/2024/12/26/differences
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  # - drupal
+  # - drupal-planet
+  # - php
+  # - podcast
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  The more differences there are between your environments, the more likely there will be issues or bugs.
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+The [harder it is to update an environment][0], the less often it will be done and the more out of sync your environments will become.
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+The more out of sync your environments are, the higher the chance there will be bugs or issues when changes are moved between environments.
+
+I've had situations where the code I wrote worked for my local database but didn't when moved to staging or production.
+
+I worked at one company where my development database was refreshed nightly, so my site was at most one day out of sync with production.
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+I knew my code would work with the latest production data and not only the data from days, weeks or months before.
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+It also meant that I needed to write my changes in an automated and repeatable way so they would be executed on the refreshed database and re-added instead of having to do it manually.
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+How in sync are your environments and how similar to production is the environment you're testing against?
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+[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/12/24/moving-changes