Use cases > End-to-end testing

Fake tests? Real problems.

Are you using fake data for your end-to-end test, you're setting yourself up for real problems. Tests might pass, but bugs can slip through...

With Snaplet, you can safely transform production data, removing personally-identifiable information while maintaining data integrity, and use this data in your tests. With production-realistic data into your CI/CD pipeline, you can test more thoroughly and realistically, and catch bugs before they reach production.

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Speed up your development lifecycle

By working against more realistic data, you uncover issues earlier in the development cycle. Less time reworking your code later on saves time and sanity. Being proactive is this easy!

Catch critical bugs and edge cases

Take your local data to your team, and the cloud with snapshot sharing and preview databases. Every time you branch your code, you branch your database. Share your code and a linked database with your team as easily as a 'git push'.

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Lessons from the trenches: fake tests, real problems.

When you don't use data that looks like production data in your end-to-end tests, you're setting yourself up for problems. We investigate how production-realistic data is often the part of the E2E testing puzzle that's hardest to solve, and how Snaplet can help.

What else can you use Snaplet for?

Coding locally

Using production-like data snapshots when working in your local development environment will make your features better.

Debugging

Using production-like data snapshots to fix data-specific issues is much less stressful than debugging against production.