Status check
'tis Saturday and am working. Have release deadline earlier than would like to have and stuff ain't quite right. Found a bunch of problems with unit test code and less than perfect stability there. Figured out some tests weren't testing right things. And weren't cleaning up afterwards. Interesting thing about way test infrastructure is written. One unit test suite was creating 96 discrete database connections across dozen or so tests. Managed to minimize that down to 72. Need major surgery to chop it down to 1 per test. Too late in release cycle to be doing now.
While cleaning up the unit test problems also figured out that core business logic that was testing wasn't quite right and test was operating in fashion not like actual running code. Fixed that which caused even more tests to fail and even more cleanup that needed to occur. Hoping at end of tunnel of fixing finally. Just finished one test suite. No failures! On to next pile of suites. Then integration tests. Sure would be nice to have QA sometimes. Sure is lots of just push button, come back and analyze to see what happened, but still tiresome.
At least can VPN in. Amazingly enough got in on first try today. Normally have to try at least 3 times due to Cisco bug where xauth doesn't get handed off properly on server side when server is busy. One of few nice things about working on weekend. Otherwise probably would have had to go into office.
No nice stereo at office either. Which is 'nother benefit. Really hope get at least 5 more years out of Linn AV5140 speakers. Definitely not in budget to have to replace any time soon. Had to replace tweeter in one rear speaker 6 or 8 months ago. Benjamin poked finger into old one and broke. When moved to house, seal on woofer on other rear speaker came loose too. Fixed that with silicone sealant.
Installing Steam games on gaming rig while running tests from work laptop. Sure have lot of games that can't seem to make time to play. Looking at stats have by far spent more time with Skyrim than any other game. 45 hours so far.
Cat report; Bagheera has had multiple vet visits in last few months. Growths in ears due to long-term allergy problems. Couple of different ear treatments which weren't exactly happy inducing. Poli needs the extra claws on front feet clipped again. Always an annoying chore. Has extra claw growing between thumb and normal paw. Athena hasn't peed on anything that know of for few weeks and hope that continues. Miss B has become the new helper kitty. Effy has been running around crazy a lot lately.
While cleaning up the unit test problems also figured out that core business logic that was testing wasn't quite right and test was operating in fashion not like actual running code. Fixed that which caused even more tests to fail and even more cleanup that needed to occur. Hoping at end of tunnel of fixing finally. Just finished one test suite. No failures! On to next pile of suites. Then integration tests. Sure would be nice to have QA sometimes. Sure is lots of just push button, come back and analyze to see what happened, but still tiresome.
At least can VPN in. Amazingly enough got in on first try today. Normally have to try at least 3 times due to Cisco bug where xauth doesn't get handed off properly on server side when server is busy. One of few nice things about working on weekend. Otherwise probably would have had to go into office.
No nice stereo at office either. Which is 'nother benefit. Really hope get at least 5 more years out of Linn AV5140 speakers. Definitely not in budget to have to replace any time soon. Had to replace tweeter in one rear speaker 6 or 8 months ago. Benjamin poked finger into old one and broke. When moved to house, seal on woofer on other rear speaker came loose too. Fixed that with silicone sealant.
Installing Steam games on gaming rig while running tests from work laptop. Sure have lot of games that can't seem to make time to play. Looking at stats have by far spent more time with Skyrim than any other game. 45 hours so far.
Cat report; Bagheera has had multiple vet visits in last few months. Growths in ears due to long-term allergy problems. Couple of different ear treatments which weren't exactly happy inducing. Poli needs the extra claws on front feet clipped again. Always an annoying chore. Has extra claw growing between thumb and normal paw. Athena hasn't peed on anything that know of for few weeks and hope that continues. Miss B has become the new helper kitty. Effy has been running around crazy a lot lately.