by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Sometimes I fill the role of the “just notice-er.” Perhaps that should be an official title in systems development.<\/strong><\/p>\n I was preparing a demonstration of software we developed in house. Something wasn’t happening as I expected. I asked a couple of the programmers to look over my shoulder.<\/p>\n “Look at this,” I said. “Tell me if I am doing this wrong.”<\/p>\n I demonstrated what I saw. The programmers were puzzled. There, right in front of them, the software wasn’t working as it should. Many questions followed. They were honestly trying to understand the odd circumstances I presented to the software they had written. I could see their minds churning through the code to find where something was possibly misbehaving.<\/p>\n Later in the day, one of the programmers had me look over her shoulder at how what she saw. She said, “I don’t think we are testing the software correctly.”<\/p>\n Then it hit me, I wasn’t testing the software. I was just noticing something about how it behaved.<\/p>\n Hmmm, could it be that “just noticing” is a part of “testing?” Is “just noticing” another branch of system development? Who has the official title of “just notice-er?” Why is it that these “just notice-ers” always spoil the fun? What could I do as a “just notice-er” to speed product development and improve quality? Why do I come up with titles like “just notice-er?”<\/p>\n Possibly someone out there reading this has answers to these questions. Answers are welcome. I am happy to notice anything you pass along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes I fill the role of the “just notice-er.” Perhaps that should be an official title in systems development. I was preparing a demonstration of software we developed in house. Something wasn’t happening as I expected. I asked a couple of the programmers to look over my shoulder. “Look at this,” I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,286,284,58,235],"tags":[154,287,285,178,236],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-conversation","category-notice","category-systems","category-testing","tag-communication","tag-conversation","tag-notice","tag-systems","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}