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| Thread ID: 136380 | 2014-02-23 06:04:00 | iPad alternative | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1368519 | 2014-02-27 01:09:00 | you just grin and bear it :p Thats why often when fixing things its a lot easier if you can actually see the problem than try to have someone describe it. Spose it could be described like your web design - if someone tried to describe a fault on a page, you may be going WTF ??? Yet if you saw it - Awhhh Easy to fix :) I get them to take a screen shot or picture of it and send it to me or to describe what happens when the page opens. Mostly I find its not too much trouble since I'm probably the one who built the page so I know most of what still needs fixing. Also if they are viewing my site and its on the server, I just log into the server. I do have a friend who has a new MacBook Pro that she has occasional first time user problems with. Ironically she is a software tester who just happens to be very short on patience when things don't go like they should. I find the hardest issues to solve are usually with older people or people using other platforms. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1368520 | 2014-02-27 07:07:00 | I get them to take a screen shot or picture of it and send it to me or to describe what happens when the page opens . Mostly I find its not too much trouble since I'm probably the one who built the page so I know most of what still needs fixing . Also if they are viewing my site and its on the server, I just log into the server . I do have a friend who has a new MacBook Pro that she has occasional first time user problems with . Ironically she is a software tester who just happens to be very short on patience when things don't go like they should . I find the hardest issues to solve are usually with older people or people using other platforms . A tester with patience issues? She's in the wrong job . I have been testing software as a profession for the last 15 years+, and one key component to staying sane is to EXPECT the software not to work . That way, it's a pleasant surprise when it does . If she's impatient, she will end up with physical illnesses brought on by that stress . . . I would advise her to lose the attitude or look for different work . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1368521 | 2014-02-27 07:29:00 | A tester with patience issues? She's in the wrong job . I have been testing software as a profession for the last 15 years+, and one key component to staying sane is to EXPECT the software not to work . That way, it's a pleasant surprise when it does . If she's impatient, she will end up with physical illnesses brought on by that stress . . . I would advise her to lose the attitude or look for different work . Well I'm not defending her but she does get the work and apparently she is good at what she does so . . . . |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1368522 | 2014-02-27 07:46:00 | Well I'm not defending her but she does get the work and apparently she is good at what she does so....That may be so, I'm just saying it's not a healthy long term proposition | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1368523 | 2014-02-27 08:10:00 | That may be so, I'm just saying it's not a healthy long term proposition I have to say that she is a surprisingly linear thinker.. Which is not always a good thing. I think she mostly just writes test scripts and does UAT. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1368524 | 2014-03-16 00:05:00 | As much as everyone loathes Microsoft, they are still supporting XP (till April anyway) with security updates, it was released in 2001, over 13 years old product! Snow Leopard is only 5 years old (2009) and they are leaving these users out in the cold. Apple Patches Mavericks SSL Flaw: Update Now www.informationweek.com ... Security update patches "goto fail" flaw that enables attackers to intercept communications, but won't help the 23% of Macs running older OS X. ... While the new OS X security patches are good news, they leave about one-quarter of Apple users out in the cold. According to Net Market Share, as of January 2014, while 42% of Apple OS X users were on 10.9, 19% on 10.8, and 16% on 10.7, a fair number still use 10.6 (19%), and even 10.5 (4%). ... Unlike Microsoft, Apple -- which has promised to begin issuing major operating system updates on an annual basis -- has published no official policy detailing how long it will support older operating systems. Apple's Monday updates continued the company's December decision to stop supporting OS X 10.6, a.k.a. Snow Leopard. As a result, anyone who's using OS X 10.6 -- or older -- is now vulnerable to a number of known security flaws.Its not that apple stopped support for snow leopard, it still does. Just so happens there was nothing to patch in snow leopard as the SSL flaw didnt affect snow leopard. It would seem you read from uninformed journalists |
plod (107) | ||
| 1368525 | 2014-03-16 02:04:00 | Are there any informed journalists?... Didn't think so. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1368526 | 2014-03-16 04:38:00 | Are there any informed journalists?... They are not too visible, they are all out interviewing all the honest politicians. (Journalist and politician are both senior exhibits in Mme Tussaud's Ripley Dept.) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1368527 | 2014-03-16 05:17:00 | they are all out interviewing all the honest politicians. That wont take long :p | wainuitech (129) | ||
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