Well its been a long time. And it has been, kind of tough too. I just started work. Work, for the first time in my whole 20 years life. And to be really frank it has not been so good. I just expected it to be a cakewalk. After all, after PintOS and Networks and Compiler Labs what more harder things could there be. But i have been proved wrong. And in a thumping manner.

Initially, after getting here i was very tense about how i will manage. And i took some wrong decisions, which cost me mentally and financially. But right now, things have stabilised. I am living much better and peacefully. So more about work then. The first day, i had to report for the Onboarding process. And well it was in another corner of Bangalore and took a long time getting there. It was like so much paperwork. And they made us spend the whole day for like 1 hour of paperwork. From 9am to 4pm. And then it did end. And we were officially working for IBM now.

The first day at office was like feeling awkward. I mean, everyone working on something etc and i was the only one who had no idea, what is happening. Feeling stupid kind of thing. I got information on what i would be doing the next 2 months. It was testing the Nameserver ( DNS ) aspect of TCP/IP implemented in the latest AIX version. AIX is IBM’s own UNIX based Operating System. I was given a book to read, and i spent 2 days going through the book. And it all appeared simple. But since then, i have come to realize, that i hardly have understood
1. What is Testing?
2. What exactly do i have to test?
3. How do i find the test cases?
4. When does testing end?

And i have been trying to find answers since the first day. I have made some progress. I have written some code. I have done some testing. But it feels unrelated. Or disjoint more like.

Apart from that, its been like college. You feel sleepy. You want to bunk, like not going to college changes to NO OFFICE. Gossiping in the night and IPL matches. Life’s the same . 😀

Anyways, havent had time to really delve into any new philosophical or economic or social aspects of life since last 10-15 days. And am waiting for that period to come