As we found out a couple of years ago, masking can bite you. We were testing a new release of a recently developed system using data where the client's name was scrambled to a bunch of random characters. The testing went smoothly, and the new release went into production.
It was not until we were running in production that we realized that one of the screens was transposing the client's first name and surname on the data base. The error had gone unnoticed by the programmer and the testing / QA teams simply because the scrambled names lacked the visual cues that made the problem obvious once real names were used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
