Financial institutions; FFS, grow a pair

[Mich the Tester]

Erm, what was a Test Manager doing setting up a defect spreadsheet anyway ?

That's a test lead/defect manager job.

My clientco doesn't have a defect tool, refuses to buy one and security policies won't let me use a freeware tool. So I got the secretary to make a spreadsheet.

[TestMangler]

[QUOTE=Mich the Tester;1372421]My clientco doesn't have a defect tool, refuses to buy one and security policies won't let me use a freeware tool. So I got the secretary to make a spreadsheet.[/QUOTE]


Is the correct answer.......

Don't be going and doing stuff yourself. You'll give Test Manglers a bad name

[2BIT]

Erm, what was a Test Manager doing setting up a defect spreadsheet anyway ?

That's a test lead/defect manager job.

cos that was his idea of managing the test workstream - we were heavily undermanned this time, he refused to do any testing cos 'he didn't get his hands dirty' so messed about with a spreadsheet he called his 'factory' for three weeks- it then got critical and he was told to do some testing at which point he admitted he couldn't understand our processes and flounced...

not even worthy of a tester title imo let alone defect manager / test manager... that he said he was way better than the 'test manager' he replaced....

[2BIT]

[QUOTE=TestMangler;1372423]

My clientco doesn't have a defect tool, refuses to buy one and security policies won't let me use a freeware tool. So I got the secretary to make a spreadsheet.[/QUOTE]


Is the correct answer.......

Don't be going and doing stuff yourself. You'll give Test Manglers a bad name

although should take, what, five minutes to set up the sheet

[Mich the Tester]

[QUOTE=2BIT;1372443]

although should take, what, five minutes to set up the sheet

Longer than it takes to set up Bugtracker or Bugnet.

[TestMangler]

[QUOTE=Mich the Tester;1372445]

Longer than it takes to set up Bugtracker or Bugnet.

Aint you guys heard of Quality Centre (or Performance Centre or whatever the fck they're calling the latest incarnation) ?

[Mich the Tester]

[QUOTE=TestMangler;1372450]

Aint you guys heard of Quality Centre (or Performance Centre or whatever the fck they're calling the latest incarnation) ?

I have. Clientco hasn't.

[TestMangler]

[QUOTE=Mich the Tester;1372452]

I have. Clientco hasn't.

Get them introduced to it. That should keep you there a couple of years at least

[Mich the Tester]

[QUOTE=TestMangler;1372454]

Get them introduced to it. That should keep you manically depressed for a couple of years at least

Nope, moving on at the end of the month. Might well be doing something completely different, but can't give details yet.

[2BIT]

[QUOTE=TestMangler;1372450]

Aint you guys heard of Quality Centre (or Performance Centre or whatever the fck they're calling the latest incarnation) ?

used quality centre on the second project, it was ok - all about the people running it - i'd get asked about the same defect by three different people to which i'd reply 'its at the status it says on QC, when its status changes ill update QC'