ID10T Error!
September 17, 2003, 12:24 pmI'm working on this online subscription thing for one of my clients that uses a creditcard verification service. I've used this particular service multiple times in the past, but I had never bothered to signup for one of their “development accounts,” which is how you're supposed to test your application.
The class I'd written that prepares all the data, makes the transaction, and parses the returned results wasn't working right. When I checked out what was being returned, the development service was returning the information in a format that is radically different from the production service! What the fuck?!
The moral of the story is that if you want people to use your development system to do their testing, make the system work the same way the production services uses! Morons!