Attn: Developers and Sys or Application Admins

[Old Greg]

*waits for someone to look at me and start blaming the BA for not ensuring the project backlog was kept up-to-date....*

Don't blame yourself. The problem with these onshore testers is they're just not Agile enough.

[SimonMac]

Putting my Environments hat on, why has someone let Dev's access to Test Environments?

If I could get away with it I'd change the admin password here and only let people access to where I want them to meddle

[Mich the Tester]

Don't blame yourself. The problem with these onshore testers is they're just not Agile enough.

So you're creating risks faster than you can control them?

[Mich the Tester]

Putting my Environments hat on, why has someone let Dev's access to Test Environments?

Because Mr or Mrs 'Someone' is a fool.

[Old Greg]

So you're creating risks faster than you can control them?

I'm managing a variable risk profile. I may need a team and a rate increase if this carries on.

[Mich the Tester]

I'm managing a variable risk profile.

oooh, look at Mr Fancypants!

[Old Greg]

oooh, look at Mr Fancypants!

That's how you get a Mr Fancypants rate.

[bobspud]

Putting my Environments hat on, why has someone let Dev's access to Test Environments?

If I could get away with it I'd change the admin password here and only let people access to where I want them to meddle

Last time I owned an environment, that's exactly what I did. I wandered in on the monday spent the week watching the access logs then on friday morning wandered into the CTO's office for a quiet chat. Monday morning the Test and Pre prod envs were locked and now off limits to the Dev teams. with only code deployments allowed by the sysadmin teams and testing team.

Works really well after the shouting dies down...

[MyUserName]

Hang on, I noticed a bug in some of the multi threading control code so I quickly hacked a fix in, it should not change anything else. Whilst I was there I refactored some of the older code too so it should work better.

[Mich the Tester]

Hang on, I noticed a bug in some of the multi threading control code so I quickly hacked a fix in, it should not change anything else. Whilst I was there I refactored some of the older code too so it won't work at all.

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