Today was my 14th (business) day on the communicator team. I\u2019m into sort of a groove and having a good time. My job today is so drastically different than what I was doing just a few months ago that I thought I\u2019d share a few things so everyone would know what I\u2019m up to.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve managed to initiate a few cool projects and get myself injected into a few more. One thing I really love about this team is the amount of trust my manager and teammates have in me and my ideas. Last week, for example, I was pointing out some perceived flaws in one of our processes \u2013 along with my ideas of how the processes should <\/em>work.<\/em>Thinking out loud, I said, \u201cit would be cool to do a case study and gather some data on this.\u201d I already have the details and participants lined up and should have the study done in the next week or so. It\u2019s really exciting to see things more so fast.<\/p>\n Another principal sdet on the team and I are starting a program that will enable testers on the team to step away from the bulk of their day jobs for up to 4 weeks. This will enable testers to work on projects they may not get a chance to otherwise \u2013 and, of course, some work gets done that wouldn\u2019t get done otherwise.<\/p>\n I\u2019m also giving a series of brown bag talks on various testing topics. You all know that I\u2019m a fan of the five orders of ignorance and this is a great opportunity for me to help people learn what they don\u2019t know. I\u2019m also heavily involved in the interviews for new team members \u2013 it\u2019s fun to interview people for testing<\/em> positions (in EE, I interviewed people to be teachers and advocates for test).<\/p>\n And finally, as a big proponent of test code quality, I\u2019m unleashing a boatload of static analysis tools on the test tree. This is a nice project because it gives me a chance to do a cursory review of all of the test code in the tree \u2013 the end result will be higher quality tests and tools \u2013 tests and tools that can be trusted to provide accurate results. The topic of static analysis is worth another post someday \u2013 but I\u2019ll wait until I\u2019m done with this little project first.<\/p>\n I think that covers it \u2013 so far so good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was my 14th (business) day on the communicator team. I\u2019m into sort of a groove and having a good time. My job today is so drastically different than what I was doing just a few months ago that I thought I\u2019d share a few things so everyone would know what I\u2019m up to. I\u2019ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}