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Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts
This automated, right?
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Sadly, no. I can automate various processes such as this within the production system to compare the same data from one report to another and report mysterious variances.
However, the users don't like this (and actually the government auditors don't either) when changing from one production version of a program to a newer version with enhanced capabilities. It is actually their job to perform the final verification, but over the years they have brow beaten me and their own IT department with their laziness and lack of willingness to do the job of final approval on enhancements they request, and that has led to piles and piles of projects that are never signed off on, making me and IT look bad regardless of how much documentation we produce that it is actually the users who are not doing their jobs.
And alas, these are not Excel spreadsheets or finding any variances would be simple. They are reports run on a mainframe that produce .pdf files. So it is eyeballing line by line.
And yes, while it sucks, I do bill by the hour.