Digging in the mud

As a software tester, I often feel like being an archeologist. I am analyzing artefacts that are found in requirements, use-cases, user-stories, emails, phone calls, balcony talks, meetings, defects, etc. I am collecting all these wide spread pieces of information and try to put them back together as accurate as possible. Unlike the two men in the excavation, I like to do this kind of job.When the connected pieces turn into a nice picture in my head, I am gluing them together in the form of well documented test cases or - if it is a really large "dinosaur" - in a final report that explains all information needed for other stakeholders but also for me so we don't need to start digging at the same place when later someone asks a similar question.

(Source: Simply the Test)