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SteveW
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30th Oct 10 at 08:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just wanted to vent some rage.. let everyone know my utter hatred of software testing.

its so repetitive.

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and so on and so on

have been doing this for the past 2 months and i dont want to do anymore. sadly i will testing the company's new software for at least another year


(company makes HMRC Freight Clearance software)
AndyKent
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30th Oct 10 at 08:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Drives: 6.2L VXR8

Not all bad mate
SteveW
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30th Oct 10 at 08:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well yeah i wasnt complaining about the money thats all good its just the work
Reedy
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30th Oct 10 at 08:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
unfortunately it has to be done and your just the unlucky one that has to do it.
Bart
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30th Oct 10 at 08:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
geek day
Baskey
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30th Oct 10 at 08:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I can't even get into the software/database I'm soposed to be testing this morning. O well time and a half as it's Saturday
SteveW
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quote:
Originally posted by Baskey
I can't even get into the software/database I'm soposed to be testing this morning. O well time and a half as it's Saturday


see that would be nice i wish ours was broken. would sit watching movies all day that way
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30th Oct 10 at 10:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Erm... Have you not heard of TDD (Test Driven Development) or Automated Unit Tests?

All of those tests could be written as automatic unit tests.

Then once you have a full test suite, you no longer have to manually regression test any of it, you just hit 'run tests'.
Baskey
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Damn, got a connection using SQL developer

[Edited on 30-10-2010 by Baskey]
SteveW
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30th Oct 10 at 10:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
Erm... Have you not heard of TDD (Test Driven Development) or Automated Unit Tests?

All of those tests could be written as automatic unit tests.

Then once you have a full test suite, you no longer have to manually regression test any of it, you just hit 'run tests'.


dont think that would work on our software, we are a little more "oldschool" than that.
Paul_J
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30th Oct 10 at 15:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well you got 2 options for automated testing...

Either unit tests in the code, which test the internal functionality (needs to be object orientated).

Or tools which test the external input screens, automatically putting data in and seeing what the effect is.

 
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