Back in the day, when I worked as a software developer, we had a catchphrase: "Testing in production". When deadlines were looming, testing the software became, shall we say, somewhat less rigorous. Mostly, it worked. Nobody died, the software limped along pretty much doing what it was supposed to do and we were on to our next adventure.
When we bought our shiny new (to us) A-liner in June, we fully intended to take it out for a test run. Or two. Or more. But (see previous post) it's been a really busy summer and somehow we just didn't get around to it. It was, after all, in good condition. Mr. T did the requisite maintenance on both it and the van to ensure we'd be vehicularly top notch once we hit the road. So, what could go majorly wrong?
There was just one little (key) thing that didn't happen. Trying out the beds by actually sleeping on them would have been a really good idea. As it turns out, there was a little tweaking required. Not a lot, but some. Enough that there was some.... um.... crankiness until we got it sorted. Which we did, pretty much.
Here's what it looks like in production:
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| Riding shotgun, Uilleam-style |
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| The kitchen, nice cosy bed @ side |
I'm beginning to understand how the users of our (somewhat-to-mostly) tested software felt.
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