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I'm a technical tester working in a context-driven agile fashion inside a local government. Howdy. I'm @ahockley in my other life.

Vancouver, WA
Joined February 2013
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Sometimes it's fun to test the impossible.
Can't work on process improvement tasks because the process for getting me access to things I'm supposed to fix is broken. #meta
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Was moved out of my previous cube. New cube not ready to be fully set up. Good thing I have a laptop. Coworker suggested pushing my stuff around in a shopping cart.
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Transitioning out of a role is a good opportunity to figure just what the hell it was that you've been doing for the last 8 years...
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New: A career shift away from focusing on software quality kwalityrules.com/2018/01/25/…
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Pondering the dynamics of a job title that has the same word in it twice...
Pro tip: there's a difference between 6:30am and 6:30pm. Also: why on earth are we still using 12-hour times *anywhere* in the technical world?
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Looking at email this morning; it feels like I haven't had to deal with this since last year...
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Merry Christmas to all my tester friends. Try not to find bugs in your presents, okay?
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Never underestimate the importance of functional infrastructure.
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"Why would we need to have someone TEST the wrapping paper?!" teapawt.net/SubvCopyEd/status/9428…
My annual holiday caution: Always proofread the wrapping paper!
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Now repeat after me "DevOps is a culture, not a department." #DevOps #culture #technology #attitude
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I think I've broken Windows 10. But alas, I repeat myself.
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I would've figured they would have a Kirkland Error... teapawt.net/erikld/status/94069556…
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"As you know, winter has arrived..." Well, actually...
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Exploring the "consistency by accident" software pattern.
When that CSS shading bug turns out to be someone's monitor with a funky contrast adjustment...
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Maybe I should repeat this every day: as testers, one of our most important jobs is to reveal problems that threaten the value of the product and the on-time, successful completion of the project (at every level of granularity). So whatever we're doing, does it help with that?
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Mondays are for kicking ass and troubleshooting production outages, and I just finished the latter, so it must be time for the former.