Journal Lt Wuff's Journal: QA sucks balls...
About 80% of the developers work that I test is broken or a lie and the other 20% is coded against specs so comically badly written you would think the analysis who created them got their degrees in marketing.
Of course most of the time the higher-ups decide that something is an 'emergency' so it gets to skip my already cursory testing groups regression suites and go directly into production. Normally it's things like "I need to change the color of the following screens" or "We are going to increase the field length for claim codes" which should get tested, but are fairly low risk so I don't stress.
Of course sometimes they come up with real fun stuff like "We're going to drop the following tables out of the database right now because we need to import some make/model information that we have had since last month and we are a little tight on space.....but no one thinks that table is even used anymore"
Those are the days that I just shut my door and yell "Fuck" anytime the knob moves or someone knocks..
Of course most of the time the higher-ups decide that something is an 'emergency' so it gets to skip my already cursory testing groups regression suites and go directly into production. Normally it's things like "I need to change the color of the following screens" or "We are going to increase the field length for claim codes" which should get tested, but are fairly low risk so I don't stress.
Of course sometimes they come up with real fun stuff like "We're going to drop the following tables out of the database right now because we need to import some make/model information that we have had since last month and we are a little tight on space.....but no one thinks that table is even used anymore"
Those are the days that I just shut my door and yell "Fuck" anytime the knob moves or someone knocks..
