Published on 12, July, 2020
just a space for people can say what they have been doing today so we can keep up and in touch
in work, went on bug hunt looking for issues anywhere and everywhere. Found 3 minor defects. confidence is growing with this software which is a credit to the developers involved. Read another chapter of my Zen book . More things I am getting wrong, Zen is so difficult !
aidie said: went on bug hunt
Just like in "Aliens"?
yes i an an ex-hunter ( kill and eat food ), these skills then transferred over to several armies across europe. And now i use the same skills to hunt for bugs in software.
The helicopter on mars has a bug in its software but they have a work around.
to be honest i got into testing software by accident. I was unemployed at time and met some guys. i told them they were very suitable for a particular employment scheme i had heard about. They had just got out of prison so had no confidence so I said I would apply for it if u do. There was a horrendous aptitude test
We all got in.
The scheme was 6 weeks training on becoming a software tester. the mother company then sent me to Chicago for months for more training and thats how i started in software testing.
There are less and less manual testers now because most of the work is outsourced to India where the staff are 3 times cheaper.
But i have to talk to developers all the time and argue about defects/bugs etc sometimes i have been the only person holding everything back. It can be stressful and very hard work at times when there is a big rush to get the code out ASAP !
How did you get from A to B?
I want to jump from the dreaded "people skills" which are alien to me (and the fact I function is a marvel) to something nice and technical where I can follow rabbitholes and dig up facts for money.