mr toad's wild ride

i guess it was bound to happen

learn from it

10:10 PM, March 30, 2006 .. Posted by philk10

As Jim says in his latest blog, don't beat yourself up and expect to be Joe Stud Tester and catch everything

Just learn from the ones you didn't catch as to why you didn't catch them - sounds like you're doing that

The next release you'll be better prepared

and the one after that

Joe Stud Tester

08:19 AM, March 31, 2006 .. Posted by metalbaby

But my contract says i must become Joe Stud Tester or else...

Next time I am not going to let the senior developer rush me when I want to do regression testing. I said at the weekly meeting that I wanted two days to do regression testing, AND got approval from the project manager on this. I finished testing on new features at 2pm on Tuesday. The developer told me that as he was taking Wednesday off work so it had to be done on Tuesday. Next time my foot will be coming down and it will be done on Thursday damn it!

but cheers Phil.This is a process and I am getting better all the time so it is ok.

chris



Edited by metalbaby on March 30, 2006 at 03:01 PM

Putting a foot down

02:39 AM, April 6, 2006 .. Posted by jimhazen

Chris,
Yes, you are right to put a foot down (on the developers neck if needed) on this issue. The product is not done until it is done and everyone (including the developer) needs to be present and available while the product is being completed. This means taking the day off before release is extremely 'Verbotten'. They should only, ONLY, be allowed to do this if they have someone to cover their stuff (that person had better know it intimately).
In as far as other things in your post... Yeah, those are what I call 'Left Field' errors (meaning you didn't see them coming), and you will need to learn from them. As the saying goes, $#!^ happens.
You're on the right course getting your PM to buy into doing things this way. I'm sure they don't want to get an ear full again from the client or the people above them.

Jim

taking the day off

11:03 AM, April 6, 2006 .. Posted by metalbaby

hey jim,

it is kind of okay for the devs to take the day off them because they client usually takes a few days before they start doing UAT. my issue was more that i couldn't do regression testing because he wanted to take the day off.

but thanks for the support. i don't want to fight with the devs, i need to make sure they understand we are all on the same team. but the problem dev is french belgian. nuff said? maybe.

chris