Testing with legacy data

I'm not a fan of testing with actual data, except maybe as a final run to make sure no existing data breaks something or for stress testing with large amounts of data. Your legacy DB will not cover all of the possible cases that need to be tested in your code.

Instead, write quality unit tests and functional tests that try all scenarios using factory boy or a similar data generator.

My 2¢

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