This is part of the Semicolon&Sons Code Diary - consisting of lessons learned on the job. You're in the data category.
Last Updated: 2024-11-23
If you stabilize seed accounts (usernames/passwords) across various staging servers (and also localhost), then you create a more consistent testing environment where various characters can be set up.
What's more, if no local seed data is available, this opens up the avenue to new developers simply downloading data from a staging server.