I decided to write something completely different today. I have no sketches to share (not that they were any good). I'm kinda feeling down low today. Plus I've got these itchy fingers that I've wanted to scratch by typing something. Work's beginning to suck by the day. I walk into my office everyday filled with hope and by the time I get out I'm fucking depressed. Really.
Everyday for the last three years I've breathed only these words Model Based Testing. This was a project that got assigned to me. I was to do the proof-of-concept only...initially. So I did it and produced my findings without any prejudices involved. I presented to my bosses, the absolute facts about the project and they were generally positive in nature. So, I got charged with running a bigger POC which would incidentally lead to my company buying the enterprise licenses for the tools required to accomplish Model based Testing. The only force that kept driving me then and still does so today is that this was the most effective way to produce tests. Now, for some weird reason, the very department that I was bustin' my balls doing all of this was dead set against my project. In the course of things this project went under 6 different bosses, none of them with the spine to support and authorize this project within the department. If the made up "cost factor" was one reason, plain ignorance was the other.
Nobody wanted to touch this because it disturbed their nice comfortable lives. This project was causing people to think, to imagine, to be creative and this scared them to the boot. Through all of this, one good texan always stood by my side. He was responsible for the birth of this project at our company and he's been the one man who's kept it alive thus far. I will be forever indebted to him.
So, long story short......I got put on a project 3 years ago, but what it turned out to be is a war with more battles lost than won. Yet, I keep on fighting. Why, because it's the right thing to do.
Everyday for the last three years I've breathed only these words Model Based Testing. This was a project that got assigned to me. I was to do the proof-of-concept only...initially. So I did it and produced my findings without any prejudices involved. I presented to my bosses, the absolute facts about the project and they were generally positive in nature. So, I got charged with running a bigger POC which would incidentally lead to my company buying the enterprise licenses for the tools required to accomplish Model based Testing. The only force that kept driving me then and still does so today is that this was the most effective way to produce tests. Now, for some weird reason, the very department that I was bustin' my balls doing all of this was dead set against my project. In the course of things this project went under 6 different bosses, none of them with the spine to support and authorize this project within the department. If the made up "cost factor" was one reason, plain ignorance was the other.
Nobody wanted to touch this because it disturbed their nice comfortable lives. This project was causing people to think, to imagine, to be creative and this scared them to the boot. Through all of this, one good texan always stood by my side. He was responsible for the birth of this project at our company and he's been the one man who's kept it alive thus far. I will be forever indebted to him.
So, long story short......I got put on a project 3 years ago, but what it turned out to be is a war with more battles lost than won. Yet, I keep on fighting. Why, because it's the right thing to do.
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