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fogBUGZ, loads of duplicates & TomTom and no PC needed, works better
2007-08-13 19:07:00 We use a beast called FogBUGZ for defects and I’ve just noticed that it isn’t possible to put any defects into any kind of grouping. We also have about 1500 open defects and because of this number and that we can’t see easily whether a defect has been registered before, because there is no grouping of defects ... More About: Works
How am I going to convince them to use Test Director
2007-08-13 09:08:00 I have been thinking about how to improve the testing process on the new project and it’s not gonna be easy. They talk about wanting to get Test Dire ctor , or Mercury Quality Center as it is now called but I think it’s just talk. They have sold this software to a big company and come next ... More About: Vince , Going
How am I going to convince them to use Test Director
2007-08-12 20:25:00 I have been thinking about how to improve the testing process on the new project and it’s not gonna be easy. They talk about wanting to get Test Dire ctor , or Mercury Quality Center as it is now called but I think it’s just talk. They have sold this software to a big company and come next ... More About: Vince , Going
Flickr photos and getting rid of the registry
2007-08-12 14:34:00 I’ve been using pictures on this blog from Flick r and lots of people seem to like them but am I allowed to include them here? I thought people stuck photos on Flickr because they wanted to share them with others. Am I sharing them too much by putting them on this blog? One person did comment that ... More About: Registry , Photos , Regis
HSBC money transfer, wonder if it?ll be sent or received?
2007-08-11 19:25:00 Just been to my bank, HSBC, and it’s virtually shut. During the week it opens at 9.30 in the morning but on Saturday it doesn’t open till 10am. Then their are no tellers, all of the windows are shut and you end up with all these customers hanging around waiting to see the one person at ... More About: Money , Money Transfer , Transfer , Tran
Getting contractors from agents, am I suitable for my own job?
2007-08-10 18:53:00 They are desperate for more staff on my new contract and the project leader asked me if I had any ideas? I recommended an agent, who I have never worked through, who specialise in testing. She contacted them and obviously made some headway with them as several hours later our wanted position pitched up on their web site ... More About: Agents , Contractors , Trac , Actor , Contractor
How the heck am I going to test that, 57,000 pharmaceuticals and counting
2007-08-09 22:02:00 Had a 4 hour training course on dispensing pharmaceuticals and wasn’t that a barrel of laughs. Nope, definitely wasn’t that. Most of the people on the course come from some kind of pharmaceutical background and are therefore naturally interested in how it worked. I was not so much interested in the dispensing side so much as ... More About: Pharmaceuticals , Test , Harm , Counting , Mace
BBC iPlayer very beta & low priority defects that never get fixed
2007-08-07 21:11:00 I signed up for the BBC’s iPlayer beta software, which allows you to watch some of their TV programs online from the last 7 days. Doesn’t work on Vista, no change there then. Tried it on the XP machine and it only downloads the software, after you have logged in, when you have selected a program to watch. ... More About: Beta , Defect , Fixed , Layer , Priority
No regression test scripts & I didn?t know Spinrite ran for that long
2007-08-06 18:46:00 There are a whole lot of defects that have been released back to the QA team and which they want me to clear. Had a look at some of them and as usual there is the normal bunch of ‘cannot reproduce’ type defects and which I couldn’t reproduce either. A whole load of others were straightforward and ... More About: Scripts , Test , Long , Regression
SP1 for Vista due next year & how do I get off Facebook
2007-08-03 20:49:00 Sounds like SP1 for Vista isn?t due this fall after all. Not due to go out now till sometime next year so it must be a biggy. A lot of people are expecting SP1 to cure all of Vista?s usability problems (You mean the I don?t want to use it type problem. Ed). I?m sure it?ll ... More About: Facebook , Year
Know squat about the new software, 2 system crashes and 1 lousy report
2007-08-02 20:29:00 Second day on the new contract and I had a couple of meetings with people and a couple of sessions where within a 2 hour period I was expected to become an expert at the Pharmacist software we will be throttling in the next few months. To learn how some software works is one thing but to ... More About: Software , System , Report , Crashes , Stem
Posting blogs via email, better not get any spam
2007-08-02 18:53:00 Started the new contract yesterday and it’s about a quarter the distance away from home compared with the last contract. Why is it I get so sleepy on the first day of a new contract. It must be something to do with first day expectations from me of a new position and them, the company, of ... More About: Spam , Email , Blogs , Posti
Escaping from project, Magoo carries on
2007-07-31 12:33:00 Finally escaped from my last contract and good luck to them. I have no doubt Mr Magoo will be there for a while yet, terrorising the weaker staff and bolting together his slapdash test systems which via testing are made good. As far as I am concerned the project was a bit of a failure. They had huge ... More About: Project , Ping , Carrie , Esca
Horrible iPod error message and a bar with no walls
2007-07-30 18:21:00 Yesterday when I plugged my iPod into the charger/synchronizer I got a message on the PC that the iPod disk needed formatting. I ignored that message, the iPod sort of switched itself off, then it rebooted itself. After about 5 minutes it recovered and was working OK. If I had OK’d the original message would it ... More About: Ipod , Message , Error , Walls
Sitemeter again & how do I answer questions on Test Director at an intervie
2007-07-28 20:10:00 Just checked my Sitemeter stats for today (13:00 GMT) and their count of visits to this site has missed at least 80% of the hits. Worse still, I have just had a look at the Sitemeter Who’s On page, which tells me who is currently viewing the blog, and it says there have been no visits ... More About: Questions , Answer , Test , Director , Meter
Anonymity on the Internet, we can do anything while hidden
2007-07-27 10:42:00 I’m still listening to The Cult of The Amateur and shocking stuff it is too, sometimes even daftly wrong. When the author Andrew Keen was going after his favorite subject of blogs he was saying how nobody is making any money out of them and that even some of the most popular blogs with daily readerships ... More About: Internet , Anonymity , The Internet , Hidden , Thing
The Cult Of The Amateur II
2007-07-26 19:06:00 I started listening to this audio book today and it’s good and it’s dead right, so far. I thought I’d have a read of the customer reviews on Amazon. About a third are positive and the rest are negative beyond belief. The book has obviously annoyed a lot of people and no doubt some of the very ... More About: Cult , Amateur , The Cult , The A , Amat
The Cult Of The Amateur
2007-07-25 22:13:00 I heard on net@nite, one of Leo Laporte’s podcasts, where he and Amber McArthur talk about the latest web sites they’ve discovered in the last week, and they mentioned a Web 2.0 bashing book that had come out and weren’t happy with it at all. It’s called The Cult Of The Amat eur : How Todays Internet Is Killing Our Culture ... More About: The Cult , The A
The year we had no summer, spring->autumn
2007-07-25 15:23:00 It certainly feels like that. It might be sacrilegious but I wish we had some global warming. Maybe they got the adjective wrong, maybe they meant global cooling. It?s been chucking it down for weeks now and we appear to be in the midst of yet another depression. For some reason it?s made me want ... More About: Pod , Summer , Spring , Autumn , Year
Agent sends me someone else?s resume by mistake, cat firmly flung amongst p
2007-07-24 08:49:00 Yesterday the agent, through whom I was offered the new contract, got me mixed up with someone else, and sent me someone else’s resume for consideration for a position. This kind of screw-up always puts the cat amongst the pigeons. I had a look at the resume and it wasn’t much good. The guy was a tester ... More About: Agent , Resume , Gent , Some , Mista
Slow interviews, quick offer & 2 Beltek wireless adapters go bust after 18
2007-07-23 17:03:00 I was phoned about a contract position on Friday, and it sounded OK. My resume was put forward immediately and within 20 minutes I had an interview arranged for this morning at 8am. That lasted for just over an hour and I came out with some war stories that appeared to be well received. The trouble ... More About: Wireless , Interviews , Quick , Bust , Slow
Hewlet Packard extended printer drivers, still can?t scan
2007-07-22 12:27:00 I needed to scan some documents the other day and that isn’t possible with the basic driver set for the HP PSC 2355 printer, so I downloaded what HP called the ‘Full Feature Software/Driver’. The file was 274.78 megabytes in size and took a full hour to download. Ran the install, which thrashed about for a ... More About: Drivers , Printer , Scan , Pack , Extended
Knowledge hording, competition to see who knows least
2007-07-20 19:18:00 I have noticed that there is a lot of knowledge hording on our project, no doubt this is for job preservation reasons. But I hate it. We are supposed to be getting the software to work as well as possible and we need to share all knowledge to give ourselves as good a chance as possible ... More About: Competition , Knowledge , Petit
Wordpress forum moderator, you will remove those pictures
2007-07-19 16:38:00 Wordpress have been arguing the toss via email over my old blog at crunchysoftware.wordpress.com, just don’t go there. A month ago they got upset as it had adverts on it which was against their Terms Of Service, so I took them off. A couple of days ago it was suspended because the moderator thought there might ... More About: Wordpress , Pictures , Forum
3 unix sessions, 3 web apps, TOAD, an FTP client, a S/S, a couple Word docs
2007-07-18 18:26:00 Gee, we’re finally doing some in-yer-face testing in a reasonably stable environment. I’m trying to prove that movements of stock across several servers work OK. This requires me to login to three seperate web applications, have three UNIX sessions running, as well as windows running a test management application and an environment configuration application. Then there’s ... More About: Unix , Word , Couple , Sessions , Toad
Ordering a spare router and a petty minded bank
2007-07-17 16:45:00 As I thought, the installation of the basic driver set for the HP PSC2355 worked fine, just had to uninstall about a gig’s worth of half-installed other HP software first. I was told the other day that someone I knew started a contract with a UK merchant bank in the city and he resigned after 2 weeks. Now ... More About: Bank , Petty , Router , Order , Spar
Uninstall MSDN Library and see what else is uninstalled
2007-07-16 11:04:00 I uninstalled the MSDN Libra ry the other day and the uninstall process, in an attempt at proving how it wasn’t prejudiced in its own software’s favour, also uninstalled the drivers for the HP printer I have.Well it didn’t completely uninstall the drivers but it did upset XP so much that XP thought that the drivers for the HP printer ... More About: Else , Uninstall
Copied software, once ripped then free
2007-07-15 20:46:00 A friend of mine just about downloads the world. You see her study and there isn’t one software package box as she buys squat. It’s a challenge to her to get around activation codes and serial numbers and registration code problems which is quite impressive in a way. As for guilt about doing that, she has none. If you ... More About: Software , Free , Once , Ripped , Then
Moving blogs and Vista won?t wake up
2007-07-13 15:51:00 I’ve been moving the old blog entries onto this version and the job seems to go on forever. Why I didn’t just sort the XML import problem out in the first place beats me. I have 83 more entries to migrate. At the same time I am swapping some pictures with ads and also some minor editing when ... More About: Vista , Blogs , Moving , Wake , Wake up
Removing essential data from PC?s, now it?s safe
More articles from this author:2007-07-13 12:31:00 For years I’ve been putting essential data on PC’s and PDA’s and for most of the time I’ve only ever been about one keyboard stroke away from losing all of it. I am now in the process of removing, or at least copying, all of this data onto a spreadsheet and printing it off, which must be one ... More About: Data , Safe , Ving , Essential 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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