I had yet another meltdown today.

One of the junior testers at work had set the status of a work item I had completed to “Failed Testing”.

Thing is, he’d not actually tested it, as there was another issue that prevented him from testing it.

Maybe it’s just me, but wouldn’t you just keep the status as “Ready For Test”, rather than “Failed Testing”? How can it have failed testing, if you’ve not tested it?

So I asked the tester that.

Today my team lead took me to one side and told me that the tester had gone off sick, as a result of my comment.

This caused me to meltdown. I ended up putting a dent in the plasterboard in the meeting room with my forehead. I’d done nothing wrong. How could I be to blame for anything for questioning how something that hasn’t been tested was set to “Failed Testing”?

I ended up going home, drained.