I know, it’s nothing new, not that I’m going to win an award for this; just want to tell my story.

Happened that I was into testing yesterday, prepared my data, test case, environment… and after 2 hours of processing the SSIS package failed… what happened? I connected my phone to the USB port of my computer, it connected, laptop detected a new NIC and the SSIS package lost connection with the DB (it’s on the same machine, using localhost to connect, still…).

Of course, it took another couple hours to detect the error cause, ohh and the process is heavy enough to keep me away from other activities, including writing the findings in the test; besides that, it’s not uncommon for the test machine to hang or freeze.

Why don’t I have another computer/laptop?

Mmm… it’s a lame excuse but my standard title is consultant, not tester; that’s enough to not have another computer from the company and I’m always on the move so that’s also not comfortable.

But things have changed, a netbook could do the job for a reasonable price and weight… interesting, blogging gives me ideas. Bad (or good) thing is I will not be able to take the netbook idea out of my head.