Coding Off Days!!!

[EqualOpportunities]

Or do you just hack code and hope it is correct?

Er, yeah...

[Churchill]

Generally, yes...

Yes ZG, you may be...

However, at your age you can nod sagely and say...

"You young whippersnappers don't know you're born... In my day....etc."

or alternatively...

"What do you expect from a lizard...?"

[Churchill]

Its a bit of a waste of time, but I dont mind it.

It is not a waste of time.

Yesterday if you'd grabbed one of your peers and said...

"Can you please cast your eye over this? I'm having a problem with it but just can't find the issue."

The chances are that while you were explaining how the module should work you'd have found the problem yourself...

Churchill - In "Steven Hawking" mode!

[SallyAnne]

It is not a waste of time.

Yesterday if you'd grabbed one of your peers and said...

"Can you please cast your eye over this? I'm having a problem with it but just can't find the issue."

The chances are that while you were explaining how the module should work you'd have found the problem yourself...

Churchill - In "Steven Hawking" mode!

I somehow doubt it. The calibre of civil service "peers" I have to work with here would have meant 2 hours explaining to them what the code meant first.

[SandyDown]

What do they call System Acceptance Testing (SAT) now then? Just testing?

What do they call User Acceptance Testing (UAT) now then? Just testing?
What do they call Regression Testing now then? Just testing?



I don't know. I bet Bob Shawadiwadi does proper testing.

In business terms

What do they call System Acceptance Testing (SAT) now then?
Commission Testing

What do they call User Acceptance Testing (UAT) now then? UAT no change



What do they call Regression Testing now then?

This one is really funny, a PM once asked us to make the test strategy business friendly - I am not a tester never have never will - the testers were so offended to be told their test strategy had business unfriendly terms, hence as the BA I got lumbered with rewriting the strategy to replace all business unfriendly terms (this includes regression testing) it took me for ever to come up with: Selective Retesting


btw: Code Monkeys !!

[Churchill]

I somehow doubt it. The calibre of civil service "peers" I have to work with here would have meant 2 hours explaining to them what the code meant first.

Civil Service? York? You're not working at "the Vetting Office" are you?

[SandyDown]

Civil Service? York? You're not working at "the Vetting Office" are you?

DEFRA - SA already said many times that she's working for DEFRA

[SallyAnne]

DEFRA - SA already said many times that she's working for DEFRA

This is why I have so many posts - if you took out duplicates I'd only have about 50, honest!!!

[OrangeHopper]

It is not a waste of time.

Yesterday if you'd grabbed one of your peers and said...

"Can you please cast your eye over this? I'm having a problem with it but just can't find the issue."

The chances are that while you were explaining how the module should work you'd have found the problem yourself...

Churchill - In "Steven Hawking" mode!

As a colleague once said about this behaviour, "Buy yourself a teddy bear to talk to and don't waste my time".

By the way, it's not an "issue", it's a "mistake" or "error".

[Churchill]

As a colleague once said about this behaviour, "Buy yourself a teddy bear to talk to and don't waste my time".

By the way, it's not an "issue", it's a "mistake" or "error".

Sounds like an enlightened approach.

That bastard would've been first out of the door when I took over the project. Closely followed by yourself.

Communication and teamwork is the way forward.