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.

Work Term Update-July 2014

This month I had a wide variety of tasks assigned to me. Here are a few of the things I worked on during the month of July:

Tested French Version

I was asked to test the French version of Passport during the beginning of this month. I spent a week selecting various test cases to run and I found 25 issues. This really tested my knowledge of the product because I needed to rely on my memory to navigate the application, since I am not fluent in French. After I had found the issues, I worked with another coop student who was fixing the issues. I also verified that the issues had been fixed for the hotfix release. I really liked being challenged to think of an efficient way to test the French version.

Development Assignments

This month I was assigned a couple of improvement development tasks. Specifically I was assigned one having to do with reports. I needed to add some information to the header of a few of the reports that were missing the information. I learned a bit more about jrxml files and how to use i-report. This was the first time I’ve gotten to fix an issue so far this work term and I felt very accomplished when I had finally figured out the problem and checked in the code.

Meeting with the Automation Testing Team

This month I also selected two test cases from the Driver Verification feature that I had previously tested to be automated. I was part of a meeting with the automation test team from India to demo the new feature to them to help them gain a better understanding of how the feature works.

Verified Customer Raised Issues

I also worked with the SSE Tester and assisted in verifying the issues that had been ported to the most current version of the code. This was challenging because some of the issues are difficult to reproduce on our Virtual Machines, so it can be challenging to figure out ways to verify that the issues have been properly resolved.

This month brought lots of learning experiences and I am really looking forward to having more development tasks in August.