Daynote ,Svenson

MM-lxiii     Friday

2000-03-03

Jo-jo. It is 9°C and drizzling. The only constant is the amount of wind, it has been blowing from Monday. It keeps drizzling till the early afternoon when it stops with a grand finale. Pouring rain. It couldn't run off the stairs fast enough and started to seep under the doors into the hall. This lasted for almost half an hour.

A group of functional mangers is testing on the S environment ( that is System-test ). One of them is Jan. To determine what must be tested they look in the PRS and find all reports with status 'solved'. After testing they change this to 'accepted' (or, with additional comment back to 'to be solved'). Basically only the r7v09 reports were 'solved' because all older reports should have been tested long before the v09 programming began (normally the functional manger produces the report, then a programmer solves it and immediately after wards the manager test and accepts it and sends it out to the operating companies). Of course Jan is such a diligent tester, ahum, that there were loads of old reports still solved but untested (from the last three years only about half the reports were accepted). Of course most of the solved programs entered production in the opcos without being tested. So Jan first has to find out which reports he actually has to test.

One problem with this testing on the S environment is that I have to make changes to the HCC file. Well, I did that and I retreived the related programs back to the T environment (test and development). After changing them they must be rolled out again to S (as long as I have them in T the S environment works with the old unchanged objects). Rolling out means that the original data must be saved, the files are then moved to S, than the existing data has to be copied into the new files and, as last step the programs are copied to S. This cannot be done while test are running of course.

The TeleSales conversion from Progress V8 to Progress V9 has been finished. This must of course be tested before it is sent out. First we had set up a system and installed everything on it specifically for testing. Neither Pieter nor Jan wanted to test on that machine because it was inconvenient (etc etc etc). They claimed they wanted to test but couldn't. So Wilbert put in extra work to get the installation scripts ready and installed the new TeleSales on their own PCs. That was two weeks ago and Ronny has been monitoring the servers since then. Nothing has been tested yet. So much for their 'wanting to test'.
Only in this case Wilbert is going to block the release if it isn't tested. This could become interesting.

Next Monday and Tuesday are Carnival Holidays so the company is closed. Except this is not a holiday in Belgium so about half the programmers will be there. Tom and Wilbert won't be so I pick up their role. BOFH for two days :-)

I added Bob Walder to my daynotes mirror. Tom will probably put him on the real Daynotes site any time now.
There are another few candidate daynoters preparing to enter the scene as well. It is getting pretty crowded around here. And I am running out of time to read them all each day as it is now. Something must give way so if you notice that I drop out some days it is just that I read daynotes in stead of writing them.

Adios