Software testing is fun!
2019-Dec-05, Thursday 11:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Especially on little sleep. ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
britshlez invited me to a boardgame Meetup in Andersonville last night, so I went out and played Decrypto and Codenames. Codenames I've played before at the Anime Chicago board game event at ACEN 2019 and lost twice, but here I won one game and lost one.
I thought Decrypto was more interesting, since it involves using word association to convey which and in what order of a set of four words you're trying to represent--but the opposing team also gets to guess the order without knowing the four words based on the previous associations, so you want to be obvious enough to convey the truth to your team but obscure enough to throw off the enemy team. We were pretty good--it wasbritshlez, me, and someone who definitely was not named Thomas--and we won two out of three. Though admittedly, one game we won because the other team failed to guess their own words twice in a row leading to their immediate failure. But a victory is a victory!
We're getting a new database at work, to replace the new database we got a couple years ago which has caused nothing but trouble and which even now I only use half the time because the twenty-year-old database is just faster and better for accomplishing most of what I want to do. That's real value for our money.
Testing began while I was away on vacation, so I come back and try to get up to speed. And the result of my testing is that nothing works. Searches are mostly too slow for any kind of efficient usage, only returning results after five-ten minutes if they don't just completely time out. Everything requires many more clicks than it currently does. And when I tried to check for record discrepancies, I received the following error:
Truly an error message for our times.
We just started testing, so normally I wouldn't be worried, except we're testing for two weeks, one of which is almost up, and the results of my testing are "This is unusable." So maybe there's some cause for worry.
Fortunately I don't actually have to fix the errors, only document them, so I can just say "This is unusable" with screenshots and let them scramble to fix it.
britshlez invited me to a boardgame Meetup in Andersonville last night, so I went out and played Decrypto and Codenames. Codenames I've played before at the Anime Chicago board game event at ACEN 2019 and lost twice, but here I won one game and lost one. I thought Decrypto was more interesting, since it involves using word association to convey which and in what order of a set of four words you're trying to represent--but the opposing team also gets to guess the order without knowing the four words based on the previous associations, so you want to be obvious enough to convey the truth to your team but obscure enough to throw off the enemy team. We were pretty good--it was
britshlez, me, and someone who definitely was not named Thomas--and we won two out of three. Though admittedly, one game we won because the other team failed to guess their own words twice in a row leading to their immediate failure. But a victory is a victory!It turned out they were there as part of a Meetup group, so I signed up. Maybe I'll make it down there once a month or so.
Me: "A holiday."
!Thomas: *looks back and forth between two pale redheads*
Me: "What, can't you tell?"
We're getting a new database at work, to replace the new database we got a couple years ago which has caused nothing but trouble and which even now I only use half the time because the twenty-year-old database is just faster and better for accomplishing most of what I want to do. That's real value for our money.
Testing began while I was away on vacation, so I come back and try to get up to speed. And the result of my testing is that nothing works. Searches are mostly too slow for any kind of efficient usage, only returning results after five-ten minutes if they don't just completely time out. Everything requires many more clicks than it currently does. And when I tried to check for record discrepancies, I received the following error:
Truly an error message for our times.
We just started testing, so normally I wouldn't be worried, except we're testing for two weeks, one of which is almost up, and the results of my testing are "This is unusable." So maybe there's some cause for worry.
Fortunately I don't actually have to fix the errors, only document them, so I can just say "This is unusable" with screenshots and let them scramble to fix it.
