preview

Why I Am Working On My Employer

Good Essays
Open Document

egular readers of the site might notice that I keep almost deliberately tight lipped about where I work for real. That’s right dear reader – Although we live in the bunker – it ultimately doesn’t really pay the bills. Nope, to do that we engage ourselves within various industries. I’ve always been a little cagey about talking about employers, and I sort of feel that Titanium Bunker is my thing, and I don’t want to muddy the waters between a ‘professional’ career, and the funny little projects I work on at home. But I’ve recently been working on a project for my employer that I find personally interesting, and thought I’d write about it here. Now – to clarify : My employer has not asked me to work on this directly, rather this is a project that I am working on because I think that it will ultimately add value to the business, and it’s also an interesting problem to solve. So here’s that problem. My Employer has a wide range of technologies that are employed in combination, to provide a system. Some of these technologies go back as far as the early 70’s – some are more recent. My work colleagues have been trying to add automated testing into the solution, but the problems arise where the systems connect. At the boundaries between technology layers, the ability to continue automating the system under test becomes more challenging. Here’s a example of the sort of problem that we are grappling with. To start the process, a user would log onto a terminal based

Get Access
Related
Get Access