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Hi All,
I am being called by my Boss & HR to a meeting tomorrow, for raising faults, in the system I am testing, JIRA I fear. So I was told by my boss to test, identify and not fix faults, raise the faults as defects. I have being doing this I raised Faults as Defects, I first get a talking to as I am causing too much on the back log. If I am to test this 'thing' properly a bug will display in more than one area. If I am not allowed to poke around the fault or ask others what other sections that could be affected, I am going to raise faults the fault is linked to a test ticket (right?) the issue appears to be the Dev team have identified the fault and then fixed but haven't gone through the ticket back log to link all the tickets that are linked. These tickets stay active and then someone who has permissions takes it off the back log, right? I notification that a ticket has been cancelled by not my boss. I am now lost, sorry for the rant!
Glenn
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It sure is a surprise, since it's your job and you were specifically asked to do it. It sounds like you're working for a wan^H^H^H moron who's concerned with optics rather than reality. If your HR folks are actually impartial, they may defend you. Good luck.
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similar to what Greg said perhaps your function was not to find the faults, but rather to prove the correctness.
... as to any potentially significant technical issues perhaps at most check they're covered in the T&C / disclaimers / error margins.
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Well the company ethic is to 'Make Life Easier', Plus this is firmware in a critical infrastructure! I was under the impression finding and raising faults was a good thing? 
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In the good old days of raising bugs on paper forms, I was sent to test a new application and given 150 sheets for the bug reports. On the second day I was severely told off for being at the photocopier instead of looking at their new application. It never occurred to them that I had already found and documented 150 faults and needed more report logs to write on.
So things do not change. Testers are there to confirm that the developers are right to congratulate themselves on a job well done, not to test things.
"The purpose of testing is to find bugs, not to prove their absence" [I have yet to find the source of this quote - it is someone like C A R Hoare or Edgsar Dijkstra or Donald Knuth; if you know who originally said it, please let me know]
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"The purpose of testing is to find bugs, not to prove their absence."
I don't know who said it, but I think we can rule out formal methods weenies.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
Dijkstra (1970) "Notes On Structured Programming" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), corollary at the end.
He's guilty of several different versions of that quote.
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I think somewhere it says that "always make the boss look good". Or at least, not bad (no matter how much you want to).
But that reminds me: I went to a meeting once with users to discuss "enhancements" (to the software I wrote), while the little cretin I was with filed the requests as a "bug report". I told him what was on my mind.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Good grief.
Sounds like an exercise in petty mindedness from some Jira Ninja to me, and why would HR would need to be involved in such?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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HR are involved as I had done this before (why wasn't the thing changed then?), I don't quite know what the outcome will be. Hope for the best, expect the worse!
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but HR being involved is always a bad thing. If you are lucky, you will be put on a Performance Improvement Plan which is a very serious reprimand. If unlucky, it likely means you will be sacked. In either case, you should immediately be updating your CV/resume and visiting all of the relevant job boards.
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Indeed. In these cases, HR represents the company's desire to be rid of an employee without repercussions to the company. Take vacation days now and get started looking.
May I recommend a _sane_ workplace for a change?
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How many of you really look for your mates to 'celebrate' it for you at work? Like cutting cakes & bouquets! These happen at your workplace? 
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Only once in my working life, when I was out of the country for my birthday (one with a 0 at the end). When I arrived back my desk had been "decorated". But very few people I ever worked with made a thing of it.
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kids dream about getting older,
young adults realising they made it waste a lot of time getting drunk (thus forgetting why they did it),
older adults wonder why they bothered,
older folks consider it their biggest mistake.
I avoid birthdays, particularly my own.
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Quote: I avoid birthdays, particularly my own
I wish I could. With every bday I seem to slide further down the slippery hill. 
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We are celebrate only 0 birthdays (10-20-30-40-50...)...
We do collect for presents on births and other special occasions we know of...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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For my 40th, it did: champagne, cards, and speeches - that kind of thing.
If I recall correctly, mine was along the lines of "I understand that now I've reached 40, I'm supposed to chasing anyone in a skirt. Please shoot me if you see that happening?"
(Mostly a dig at the General Manager who was "seeing" one of the ladies in the order phone pool)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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We do the ones ending with zero. For my last I got a bottle of wine the same age as me.
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No. Never have, never will.
Even as a kid I never celebrated because it comes during summer break.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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We have a tradition that the birthday person brings some kind of snack, like cake. It only really works in smaller offices though. For next year the manager has come up with a new idea - we all give a bit of money each month and then at the end of the month we have a little celebration for whoever had their birthday that month.
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We had a new HR person who made a big deal of peoples birthdays, that didn't last very long.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Reference source Path.cs for Core/Standard is missing GetRelativePath() function even though it's in the BCL (not DNF's BCL tho)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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