I Hate Testing
Jan. 4th, 2007 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebWhen you're testing an update to a system, there are three things that can happen:
1) You look at the same stuff you always look at, and it looks just the same as it always does. This is sleep-inducing. And although I like sleeping, I feel pretty certain that my employer does not want to pay me to sleep, even though I don't remember seeing anything specifically prohibiting this in all the "compliance" modules we've had to do lately.
2) You can find a problem. This means that something that used to work no longer works. This is depressing.
3) You can find something you don't understand which is due to your not having understood how the system was supposed to work to begin with. This is frustrating.
Or some combination of course. Today I experienced #1 until 4:00 when I experienced #2. I really hate reporting problems at the end of the day.
Notice how while I am testing, I am not getting any real work done. By real work, I mean doing the actual work which is the whole point of having a system.
**
Today I wandered around in the store across the street from my work building labeled "Coop for Women." It turns out it's also the Coop art store. In this store I found a thing called a "darkroom thermometer." This reminded me that I would like to have a room thermometer so I can see just how cold my office is and so I can see how the temperature varies within my house. It's not so easy to find this kind of thermometer, although I have seen large decorative ones intended for gardens.
The darkroom thermometers I found are about 6 inches long and an inch wide and look like the usual mercury-type thermometers with the liquid colored red. I recorded the price ($6.45) and the location (next to the picture frames) on my new list of stuff I want.
**
I also did some research on front-loading washers. I don't plan to buy one until ours breaks or until I feel less poor or both. But I discovered that besides being more efficient and cleaning clothes more thoroughly with less wear on the clothes, there are two additional benefits of interest to me. First, you can generally fit bigger loads into them. Second, a load comes out of this kind of washer much drier than a load washed in a regular washer. Both of these advantages together mean I might not mind so much not having a drier if I had one of these washers. I wouldn't need to do so many loads, and it wouldn't take so long for each load to dry.
1) You look at the same stuff you always look at, and it looks just the same as it always does. This is sleep-inducing. And although I like sleeping, I feel pretty certain that my employer does not want to pay me to sleep, even though I don't remember seeing anything specifically prohibiting this in all the "compliance" modules we've had to do lately.
2) You can find a problem. This means that something that used to work no longer works. This is depressing.
3) You can find something you don't understand which is due to your not having understood how the system was supposed to work to begin with. This is frustrating.
Or some combination of course. Today I experienced #1 until 4:00 when I experienced #2. I really hate reporting problems at the end of the day.
Notice how while I am testing, I am not getting any real work done. By real work, I mean doing the actual work which is the whole point of having a system.
**
Today I wandered around in the store across the street from my work building labeled "Coop for Women." It turns out it's also the Coop art store. In this store I found a thing called a "darkroom thermometer." This reminded me that I would like to have a room thermometer so I can see just how cold my office is and so I can see how the temperature varies within my house. It's not so easy to find this kind of thermometer, although I have seen large decorative ones intended for gardens.
The darkroom thermometers I found are about 6 inches long and an inch wide and look like the usual mercury-type thermometers with the liquid colored red. I recorded the price ($6.45) and the location (next to the picture frames) on my new list of stuff I want.
**
I also did some research on front-loading washers. I don't plan to buy one until ours breaks or until I feel less poor or both. But I discovered that besides being more efficient and cleaning clothes more thoroughly with less wear on the clothes, there are two additional benefits of interest to me. First, you can generally fit bigger loads into them. Second, a load comes out of this kind of washer much drier than a load washed in a regular washer. Both of these advantages together mean I might not mind so much not having a drier if I had one of these washers. I wouldn't need to do so many loads, and it wouldn't take so long for each load to dry.