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Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostYep, and add to that testing 'methodologies' and project managers that turn testing into an exercise of demonstrating that the software will do what you want it do do if the user or maintenance chappy follows the manual precisely. Trouble is, people don't follow manuals precisely and users often have to deal with cases that don't fit the standard business process. No amount of shouting 'RTFM' will ever change that. Good exploratory testing of the kind that James Bach proposes involves going further and trying to show that software will do something you absolutely DON'T want it to do using steps that are accessible to users or other applications. Then you get the problem of some PM saying 'oh but a normal user would never do that'. Great, but there is no such thing as a 'normal user'.
Mind you, I think TM knows all this already.
Rumour had it that he had opposable thumbs but we were never sure. What we do know was that he was a two finger typist who would try everything to avoid doing real work and because of that generated the weirdest workflows and bugs that you could imagine.
He forced us to start doing explorative testing but the cheapest way of doing that was to get my children to do it. payment £1 per bug provided you show me how you did it.
The end result was £10 in their pocket and £2500 of invoicing for me.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by eek View PostMy current test methodology is Jim X who used to work on a particular off-shore platform.
Rumour had it that he had opposable thumbs but we were never sure. What we do know was that he was a two finger typist who would try everything to avoid doing real work and because of that generated the weirdest workflows and bugs that you could imagine.
He forced us to start doing explorative testing but the cheapest way of doing that was to get my children to do it. payment £1 per bug provided you show me how you did it.
The end result was £10 in their pocket and £2500 of invoicing for me.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostDunno what it's like now with banks unwilling to lend, but keeping a small mortgage going was also a good way of raising cash from your equity for unexpected events, at a much better rate than personal loans or credit cards. You can always knock the mortgage back down when funds permit.
If push came to shove I could access £100,000 at the click of two buttons.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostTo automatically suggest a major problem is down to offshore devs is borderline racist really.
In my time around them I have seen dev-bob practically KILL a full spec HP super dome using cognos and no business sense. (their honest opinion was we needed a bigger box....)
I have seen Java code that was supposed to be part of a set of weblogic deployed apps bypassing the whole ******* ESB and crafting their own hard coded ODBC connections ignoring the the connection pool completely... (code that was just pasted in from google to make matters worse...)
I have seen bobs destroy entire servers because the idea that one might understand that backing up a database needs more than just letting net backup take a copy of the database files while they were in full use...
I have also seen what happens when they try to free up space on a server by wandering into the transaction logs folder and getting rid of all those pesky log files
I have seen reports back from 300 servers that were supposed to be built by automation come back full of discrepancies because the company building them couldn't drive the deployment tool so got some bobs in over a weekend....
Bobs are at best a nuisance and at worst total ******* chaos... It has nothing to do with the colour of their skin and everything to do with their random "****itletsthrowmudatthewallandwatchwhatsticks " method of working. This is my opinion of them after 10 years working with them. and it is also the opinion of pretty much every UK born indian I have worked with. In fact many of the UK indians have an even worse attitude towards them as they feel tarred with the same brush...Comment
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Just had the following email:
We know that our current technical issues may still be impacting a number of our customers as we work to clear the backlog.
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Automatically waive or refund overdraft fees and charges on current accounts for customers who have been impacted
We are making these commitments today and there is no requirement for any customer to take further action to benefit from these changes.
We appreciate this has caused an unacceptable level of inconvenience, and to help further we are again extending opening hours in over 900 NatWest branches from 8am until 7pm today.
For further support, please call us on either 0161 931 9959, 08457 77 77 66 or 0800 656 9639. Alternatively, for the latest information and answers to common questions please visit natwest.comI didn't say it was your ******* fault, I said I was blaming you!Comment
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostMcCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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Originally posted by scooby View PostJust had the following email:
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