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Re:Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not ret... by billyhoffman on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:05PM (#22372149)
Until someone in QA who keeps running that test flow manually says “Wait a minute, my time is valuable!” and scripts the checkout flow in Selenium...
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Re:Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not ret... by manigandham on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:45PM (#22372520)
That's what the dev/staging environments are for. Even if you run it 3x/day in production, it's less than $100/month. Use a company card and you get the money back too.

I don't see enough of a problem that requires all the technical debt to support fake numbers in production.

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Re:Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not ret... by notwedtm on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:48PM (#22372531)
This is the difference between unit and integration tests.
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Re:Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not ret... by OJFord on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:25AM (#22374546)
Manual vs selenium? No it isn't...
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