I'm not good at testing my own code....

[poltr1]

...because I keep overlooking stuff. It's like me trying to proofread my own writing. It looks OK to me. Or at least that's what my eyes tell my brain, or what my brain thinks. (Believe me, I'm not perfect.)

The past couple of days have been a bug-hunting expedition. My supervisor found one, and a co-worker found one. I found a few as well, purely by accident, and fixed them on the fly.

I'd much rather be bug-fixing than testing. Even when I have "moments of D'oh!" when I (finally) see something that should have been obvious, or not. Stuff like misspelling a variable name, putting a period in instead of a comma, forgetting a suffix, or the all-too-common use of "==" when I should have been using "eq".

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[yourmommma.livejournal.com]

Thousands of years ago when I sometimes wrote short programs for statistical tests I had the luxury of having a Quality Assurance person to go over testing the program and trying to crash it for me. She was really good at it, too. It was nice when she finally passed it to know that no one in my department would be likely to find a bug in it after she had gone through using it!

[poltr1]

We have a QA person on staff, but the new fixes haven't hade it to her yet.