X: When deploying in test things break for other teams. Y: Yeah, the problem is we only have shared test environments. The problem is not shared test environments. Production is messy, anyway. If we cannot handle messiness in test, production will be downright chaos. It is a skills and practice problem. But, sure, it is easier to say it is an environmental problem ... 🤷
🛡Jo Van Eyck
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1mostill, there are version/state constraints between components that are clearly hopeless with a shared test environment. And prod environment must be perfectly clear and stable for the version of the different components (and, yes, the exact match of versions have to be tested in QA/Preprod before) - not messy. So I assume you're writing about Preprod and indeed, it has to be on-par with Prod, so if it breaks, it will break in Prod. But tha's actually the objective, not a problem!