So there is a flood light, actually a pair at the corner of my house in the back yard.\u00a0 I have been here for 4 years now and have never been able to figure out how to turn it on.\u00a0 Sure I found a random light switch that did nothing but I never figured out this light.\u00a0 New bulbs and everything.\u00a0 GUESS WHAT?! Tonight as I walked into the house the light came on and I was able to turn it off and on with the random switch.\u00a0 Please pray that I don’t burn up in a house fire tonight.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 Thanks.<\/p>\n
I need to update my blogging software and learn to make templates.\u00a0 Great stuff! Except that I did all the reading and research well over a year ago and have forgotten the basics.\u00a0 I really don’t want to do it all again.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 What a lazy geek I am.<\/p>\n
Scope Creep.\u00a0 Do you know what that means?<\/p>\n
Scope creep<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>(also called focus creep<\/strong>, requirement creep<\/strong>, feature creep<\/strong>, and sometimes kitchen sink syndrome<\/strong>) in <\/em>project management<\/em><\/a> refers to uncontrolled changes in a <\/em>project’s<\/em><\/a> <\/em>scope<\/em><\/a>. This phenomenon can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered a negative occurrence that is to be avoided.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n So I asked for 1 week to test something and was given about 3 days. Magically last week I was given an extra 2 but they were plagued with downtimes of critical systems needed to do my testing.\u00a0 For 2 days this week I was in training getting a full dose of why I don’t want to be a test script writer and that brings us to Wednesday, yes that is TODAY.\u00a0 (and the light just went off) Between all my meetings I discovered that “requirements” had changed.\u00a0 The system had been updated to remove some functionality and a new piece of functionality was being built.\u00a0 Upon my questioning I was told it was in the requirements.\u00a0 UH MY ASS!\u00a0 And now things I was counting on (oops! light on, this would be great if it were a clapper!) are no longer there.\u00a0 So does anyone really know what the crap is going on? Does anyone understand that I HATE REGRESSION TESTING? Oh wait they don’t cause they didn’t think I needed to test anything later, you know just testing that one piece would be fine.\u00a0 Furthermore my boss has stated that we don’t have time to do it all and that we will need to decide what is good enough and call it done.\u00a0 Doesn’t that make what I am doing a waste of time?\u00a0 I mean you are not going to fix anything I tell you is broken cause it is really “good enough”.\u00a0 Maybe we can go back to omitting testing, I mean the developer did unit testing and checked it out in DEV so that should be “good enough” right?\u00a0 You did let the “architect” do all of the integration testing and determined it was good enough.\u00a0 Really what is it you want me to do here? I know I will learn new skills for my next job.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0<\/p>\n Today was a pretty bad dog day.\u00a0 Gwen seems to be hurting again, which is bad!\u00a0 She won’t give me a high five but when I extended her neck to look straight up she could.\u00a0 Also she’s been inside since 8 ish and we have been outside, there has been no barking.<\/p>\n Ok, that is all for the night.\u00a0 Time for bed – too bad there was no hot tub time in there.<\/p>\n ****this post brought to you by record high and recorded high<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So there is a flood light, actually a pair at the corner of my house in the back yard. I have been here for 4 years now and have never been able to figure out how to turn it on. Sure I found a random light switch that did nothing but I never figured out this light. New bulbs and everything. GUESS WHAT?! Tonight as I walked into the house the light came on and I was able to turn it off and on with the random switch. Please pray that I don’t burn up in a house fire tonight. \ud83d\ude42 Thanks.<\/p>\n