Note to everyone: rushing through a project, or anything for that matter, is a bad idea that can lead to some serious problems. Take going to work. If you are rushing to work and speed through town, you are very liable to get a speeding ticket.

No, that is not what happened to me. No, I had a user that zipped through testing a program that had been submitted for user beta testing. This user just rushed through the testing and approved it for use in the live environment. After this program is out in the real world doing its duty, the user comes back to me to tell me she forgot to run some other test in her rush to get off work. Luckily in my alpha testing that I do before I ever let a user near the program, I tested the program for just those set of tests that she needed. Well, I gave her my results and allowed her to continue testing in the test environment. Luck for her, the program pass the other tests.

No harm done. But I can wager she will never rush a test again.. until the next time she has to rush home.

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