Originally, I was supposed to join the Communicator team today, but a cancelled day of vacation pushed my start date up to yesterday\u2026but there was a meeting I wanted to attend on Monday, so I\u2019ve basically been out of building 21 (EE land) and in or near my new office since Monday afternoon. So, let me tell you’ what I\u2019ve been up to since then!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a bit of a slow start \u2013 given that I started early and the pace that the hr backend is updated, I don\u2019t have permission to enlist in the source code yet. On top of that, I\u2019m told it will take a week or two to get my server account moved so I can use the in-development release. I\u2019m also still waiting on my new computer (I still have my laptop and a computer that will become my secondary machine, so I\u2019m certainly not completely blocked). <\/p>\n
And, despite waiting for permissions, I don\u2019t feel blocked in my ramp up either. I have a 3-pronged approach to ramping up on a test team that is working well for me so far. First off, although I normally don\u2019t like going to meetings, I\u2019ve already attended half a dozen or so. Some, I\u2019m invited to, and others I just tag along. It\u2019s a good way to figure out what\u2019s going on in the project, learn faces, and get a sense of the team dynamic. Secondly, I\u2019ve spent several hours reading through bug reports. It\u2019s great \u2013 without talking to hardly anyone, I already have a sense of the types of testing approaches used on the team, a sense of how the database fields are used and interpreted, and even some insight into individuals on the team. I\u2019ve recommended reading bug reports as a way for testers to ramp up quickly on a team for years, and I\u2019m delighted to see that it works. And \u2013 I\u2019ve read team wikis, test plans, and whatever other collateral I can find in order to help round out what\u2019s going on. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been reading so much, in fact, that by Tuesday afternoon, my eyes were aching and my vision was fuzzy. So fuzzy, in fact, that I visited the optometrist on the way home for my first ever<\/u><\/em> eye exam. Shortly later, I ordered my first ever pair of eyeglasses. I\u2019ll post photos of my new look as soon as they show up.<\/p>\n Today, I made sure I took a few breaks to rest my eyes \u2013 I used the time mostly to unpack a few items and tidy up a bit. My new office is now entirely unpacked except for a big box full of random cables that I\u2019m afraid to get rid of because the moment I do, I\u2019ll need one of them. <\/p>\n I think that\u2019s about it. Oh \u2013 except that I\u2019m giving a talk tomorrow on random career tips. I think it will be interesting, but we\u2019ll see. Looking forward to sharing them here at a future date\u2026or perhaps over live meeting??? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Originally, I was supposed to join the Communicator team today, but a cancelled day of vacation pushed my start date up to yesterday\u2026but there was a meeting I wanted to attend on Monday, so I\u2019ve basically been out of building 21 (EE land) and in or near my new office since Monday afternoon. So, let…<\/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-94","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\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}