Work Term Update-September 2014

The month of September marked the beginning of work term number two for me. I am still working at NCR for this work term and I'm really enjoying getting to see what staying at a company for a long period of time is like.

During the month of September I worked on three major assignments. All the assignments had to do with testing and included french regression testing, regular regression testing and testing the driver verification feature again.

French Regression Testing

I was assigned the task of testing the French version of Passport again. This time around I got to create my own set of tests to execute. I feel like planning the test cases in advance really helped me to test the french version more efficiently. I raised a lot of issues related to the French version, I was surprised that it was more issues than last cycle, but I think that had to do with me planning out the test cases more intentionally. Through testing the French version I really learned where the problem areas are and how to better plan the test cases in the future

Regular Regression Testing

I also had several regular test cases to run during this regression cycle. They came from a wide variety of features including administration, driver, alerts and many others. I liked that during this cycle I got to learn about more new features and increase my knowledge of the product.

Driver Verification Testing

The final assignment I had during the month of September was to help test the driver verification page for a fix that was going to one of our customers. This task really challenged and increased my understanding of this feature since I had to understand what their bug was and how to test it. Because of these problems, I created more test cases to make sure that the driver verification feature works in the future.

I'm excited for what the month of October will bring. I'm not exactly sure yet what my tasks will be, but I'm sure they will challenge me.

Work Term Update-August 2014

During the month of August I worked in both development and testing. The first half of the month I worked on two main development issues and the second half of the month I worked on regression testing again. Here are some more details about my work during the month of August:

Development Improvements

The development work I did this month was mostly around some improvements. There were two major improvements I worked on. The first involved updating some different reports from last month. The other involved adding a new configuration to one of the configuration files. This improvement was a challenge but I felt so accomplished when I figured out the issue and got it working correctly.

Regression Testing

During the second half of the month of August I worked on regression testing again. I was assigned some of the same areas to test as last cycle as well as some new features, or at least features I hadn't looked at in depth before. I really enjoyed getting to do something I am good at. One challenging thing this time around was setting up my testing environment with an Oracle database. 

This post ends my first official work term at NCR. I am continuing my co op at NCR through to December, but I will be on my second work term of five.