Work Term Update-May 2015

May was a month where I moved between teams a lot. I mainly switched between CxP testing and Performance testing. Here is what I did this month:

Performance Testing

I started running the performance tests for the different segments of the product. I learned a lot about the different features of JMeter. I also started increasing my knowledge of databases. I am getting more and more comfortable with them. I spent a short amount of time trying to fix one of the scripts that was no longer working but I didn't have much time to dedicate to it so I will have to continue working on it in June. 

CxP Testing

I was asked to help test the second factor authentication that had undergone some major changes this quarter. I really enjoy testing so I was happy to help out. I found CxP very interesting because it was a part of the product I have never really tested thoroughly before. I created test cases and documented them using HP Quality Center and I was asked to perform some demos as a review before we could sign off and say the feature was done. All in all it was a really good learning experience.

These two tasks took up all of my time in May. I'm looking forward to being a part of the regression test team in June and working more on the performance testing.

Work Term Update-April 2015

This summer I am working at NCR again. This time I am doing performance testing as well as some regular testing. I started my work term two weeks early so that I could meet with the coop student from the previous semester (who was just finishing up his work term) and learn how performance testing works from him. I was only working for two weeks in April, but here is what I accomplished.

Set Up Computer

I spent the first week of my work term setting up my computer. Unfortunately there was a delay with the disks for installing software on my work computer so it took a very long time to get going. 

Research for new Sales Server

The sales team has been having some issues with their current server and were looking for an upgrade. I was assigned the task of researching our options for a new sales server. I was not very familiar with setting up servers so I began researching some of our options as well as reading through our documentation to figure out what we needed as a minimum starting point.

Performance Testing Training

The previous coop student taught me how to restart the performance system, run the tests and gave me some basics of what to look for once the results of the test are in. It was a lot of information to absorb but I took lots of notes since I knew his term was coming to an end and I wouldn't be able to ask him questions. He taught me how to use JMeter and gave me a run down of how our scripts work.