hell of a week
After getting hired and then promptly surviving the first round of layoffs, by default one of my hats became that of a software tester. Turns out that finding out all the stupid things people might do to your freshly coded software happens to be one of my mutant powers. I’m really good at this stuff, and that’s probably what kept me employed.
I’m pleased with the programmers, they take my bug reports as feedback and still smile. Then they ask me to write 20 line shell scripts to do the heavy lifting around the Amazon EC2 instances. Having learned an intermediate level of leet-ness with regular expressions and knowing about MySQL injection attacks hasn’t hurt either.
Then my boss tells me to upgrade to the next release of the software and beat the living hell out of it. Again.
