First Week at the New Job
Started working at the new job this week, this is the recap:
Day 0 (aka Monday): Wake up at 6:00, wait to leave till 8:20, walk 30 minutes to work… find a coffee shop and eventually arrive at the office around 9:15, no one was in yet. Once people showed up I found out that I wouldn’t have a computer for a couple days. They gave me reams of spec docs to read. I read them. Good times.
Day 1 (aka Tuesday): Wake up, walk to work, still no computer. Watched a coworker analyze the results of the previous nights build. Pretty interesting. Late in the day, get a computer; the receptionist computer. I’m told to not install much stuff on it, since I’ll be getting a new one “soon.”
Day 2 (aka Wednesday): Call in sick. Yeah, can you believe that? I woke up with a fever and a horrible horrible horrible sore throat. My boss must’ve thought I was interviewing elsewhere since they didn’t give me a computer, etc. . .
Day 3 (aka Thursday): Get into work, my boss says, “I thought we’d driven you off since we didn’t give you a computer yet… we really are a software company, I swear.” I actually write up a very very simple test plan for the most simple of features and start learning how to use the product. Good stuff.
Day 4 (aka Friday): Start executing on my test plan in one browser, Firefox 1.5.0.1… only 4 others to go, I figure it’ll take me 5-6 hours to get through all the tests on all the browsers. This isn’t what 90% of the job will be like, mainly I’ll be testing the API using Java or .NET but, you gotta learn what all the parts do, so manual testing is just going to help me learn. After work we went to Mojito’s which is only a block away from work. Nice. Speaking of automating these tests, I really need to look into selenium driven mode using Java. I’m 99% certain I could write these tests using the web services api to generate the test data I need (boundary conditions, long strings, etc.) and then send the selenese] to the browser, or many browsers to have it automated. Too much to learn right now, but at least I’m thinking about it, right?