Another busy week in Tableau Test

As usual, there is plenty of activity on the test team this week here at Tableau.

A random sample of activities, all of which are typical:

1. Test pass week!  We ship every quarter (from the test point of view, this happens MUCH more frequently -I wrote about this 2 weeks ago)
2. Finding and filling holes in test coverage.  With a product as agile as Tableau, the current state is that we have some source code files without adequate automated test coverage.  One of the test teams' tasks is to find these files and add tests to validate the functionality of that file.  This is a fairly straightforward task to explain, but if (and when!) the code is complex, adding tests can be a time consuming event.
3. One of our testers is adding a rolling log handler to tabpy.  Hop over to github to see her proposed changes.
4. Oddly, we are updating our Windows machines to the latest version.  That takes a half day - I wish I would have known that BEFORE I clicked the button Monday morning.  I would have waited until the end of the day.
5. Many server setups and configurations centered around R and Python external servers.  We're getting ready to test the secure capability we are adding to those services.  Again, see the tabpy site for details.
6. Automation analysis results, find/file/regress bugs, etc…  The standard test workload is always ongoing.

So we are set for another full week of activity here.  Nothing too special about this week so I am just sharing a "day in the life" type of update.

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,

John