Today was a rather wan day at work. The main project I've been working on has been stalled because of some design issues, and those have been put on the back burner with my boss because he wants to work out some design issues on another, related project first. I feel that we need to do X to make it work right , and he says that if we do X then we have to change the structure of Y to make it sensible from a user standpoint, and I tell him that makes sense to me even though it's a bunch more work, and he says that if that's the right thing to do, then that's okay with him. I just hope it's still okay once he can devote more of his attention to it. Meanwhile, I test.
Testing is very dull.
Well, to me it's very dull. One of my best friends at work, Tracy, is the lead tester for my team. We get along pretty well, both personally and professionally, and we've talked on occasion on how we would never, ever want to have the other person's job. The irony is that she doesn't have to program, but reviewing other peoples' code means that I basically have to test. But she likes testing, and just as I complain when I'm not doing any programming, she much prefers to spend her time actually testing.