When the going gets tough at work (as it is now), I often wonder why I do what I do. This is one of the little stories that remind me why I am a software tester.<\/p>\n
Martin works for SkyScanner<\/a>, a flight pricing site. He was testing out some code one evening, a couple of months ago, and ran into the sort of frozen-brain feeling you get after too long at the keyboard. So he pushed his wheely chair back from his desk, into my line of sight.<\/p>\n “Bun,” he said, “Name me two destinations. Just any cities.”<\/p>\n “Düsseldorf,” I replied, “and Akron, Ohio.”<\/p>\n “Thanks,” he said, and wheeled back to his desk to fiddle with the new test data. taptaptap<\/em>. “[insert curse word].” taptaptap<\/em>. “[insert worse curse word].” taptaptap<\/em>.<\/p>\n I looked up as he rolled back into my line of sight, looking exasperated. “How do you do<\/em> that?”<\/p>\n Turns out that Akron, Ohio, USA, is served by two airports, Akron and Akron Canton<\/a>. And some clever soul, somewhere in the ancestry of the data they were working with, had remapped Akron Canton to Guangzhou Province<\/a> in China. That was giving him some…funny results.<\/p>\n So they had to go clean up their data. And I remembered why I’m a software tester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the going gets tough at work (as it is now), I often wonder why I do what I do. This is one of the little stories that remind me why I am a software tester. Martin works for SkyScanner, a flight pricing site. He was testing out some code one evening, a couple of … Continue reading Akron and the Abi Field<\/span>