test development

The library I'm writing for my project at Sun is big enough that I need a testing person assigned to write tests for it, which is cool. There's a woman writing tests for my library, which is a first for me, and I enjoy it. I'm glad that she's tolerant of my ways, because today I kept her until after 7 at work, because I kept running back to my office and hacking on code, and then running back to her office and telling her to test it. By the end of the night, we had gone from my library core dumping any time it was touched at all, to half the test suite passing, which was good progress.

The only problem here is that she has a lazy eye. A REALLY lazy one. I don't know if any of you have to work with someone with a lazy eye, but I need to have lots of conversations with her, and for some reason it hurts my head to talk to her sometimes, because I'm trying to stare at her good eye, but my mind doesn't work well with the whole "eyes pointing different directions" thing. I refuse to look at something else, or my feet or something, because that's just stupid, and obvious. It's HARD though. Luckily in my line of work, there's really not much reason to actually speak to people face to face.