Once upon a time there was a Q&A that happened as follows…
Q:So when can you say that your local dev environment is ready?
A:When you have run a comprehensive unit test, pre-existing or drafted yourself.
Q:What is a comprehensive unit test?
A:One that covers all major components of the architecture you are working on.
Q:What can be the major components of an architecture, one may be working on?
A:Layer Code, deployment, DB, Jndi context, orm context, 3rd party API context.
Q:What’s your point?
A:You environment ain’t ready until all your environments are not accessible from your box. The best way to ensure this is with a unit test and know thy environment!
These topics are so confusing but this hepled me get the job done.
I’d vnetrue that this article has saved me more time than any other.