%% Last Updated: - [[2021-03-30]] %% Take a copy of the production data and use it for your test environment. Note that you may have to scrub sensitive data (such as customer information or passwords) before you can do this. Email addresses should particularly be scrubbed and ideally replaced with a fake domain (such as `[email protected]`) in case there’s a chance that notifications are generated by the test itself that sends emails to real clients. An advantage of this is that it’s more production-like and may expose issues with non-Latin characters, for example, that may not otherwise have been tested. Using production data for testing purposes can be dangerous, not to mention illegal, in certain circumstances. To avoid this, you can scrub sensitive data or generate your own, either by injecting records into a database or by writing an automation script to create data on the front-end. If you write a script, you may be able to reuse parts of it later for your load test.