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Friday, March 24, 2017

Where's the semicolon?

It's been a while, hasn't it? I actually forgot I had started this. Life has been kind of crazy but who's isn't?

I have discovered cold brew coffee. It's amazing. I purchased a warehouse club sized package of coffee over the weekend and it's almost gone. Needless to say, I've been on point with my tasks, if not a little jittery.

Not much going on at work because the dev team is in training. We are slowly creeping along with our weekly tasks. It's been pretty boring. I completed a SQL basics certification from sololearn.com and now I'm starting a Ruby one. Ruby is very similar to the previous languages I've worked with but no semi colon to close the command. It's driving me crazy. It's such a reflex to end each line of code with a semicolon. It's pretty irrational of me to be upset but if this is the worst thing going on in my life, things are going pretty good.

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Informational Interview

I just had the greatest talk with a QA engineer in my company. He's on a different team so he brought a very different perspective to testing as a whole. His team is more of an Agile format as mine is Waterfall. The more I learn about Agile, the more I am in love with the concept. He also directed me to a new blog to read: lisacrispin.com. I look forward to reading her perspective as well. Also, he introduced me to some books that I will have to report back on as I acquire and read them.

Overall, an amazing 30 minute chat. So thankful.

Friday, March 3, 2017

Virtual Machine Testing

Today was a quick but productive day. I got to speak to a manager in a different part of IT and I learned a lot. I'm really questioning how I want to develop my career. Even though most of it is usually stumbling into positions and dumb luck.

We were finally released a virtual machine from the systems team that was supposed to be tested ages ago. There wasn't enough time in the day for me to finish the script all in one go. What is exciting is the rest of the machines are not virtual, we are trying this out. Seems to be working so far. Except at first, I would ask development to populate the database with, you know, data, and all I would get is a screenshot back of data on their machine working fine. Gotta love that. But, I'm exhausted. I need to learn how to titrate coffee better so I don't crash so hard. Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

First!

Well, I guess I'm here now. I couldn't find many QA blogs, so, I'm starting my own. I am a college student (second time around) and am trying to work my way into the world of Software Quality Assurance. I am an intern at a large company doing QA work. I am lucky as hell to have this position. I was under the delusion that Development is where I needed to be and QA would be my jumping point. Two months in and I'm in love with QA. We do mostly manual testing but my new project is to research automation software. There is software built into our system but it requires a good amount of specialized xml coding to work. I'm actually looking forward to diving into this project.

I'm not going to claim this to be an interesting read. I just want a place to waste my breath (keystrokes?) on this new venture. Read if you want.

Take care. 😺