Comment by verall

Yes in all the environments I've been in this is nearly the entire job. But I work in embedded...

Need to verify feature X - okay, let me just -

- Find the list of CPs needed

- Get a recent source tree

- Acquire a board

- Flash board

- Get CPs

- Manually assign IP and bring up SSHD to the device so I'm not working over serial

- Build and SCP the rebuilt thing to the device

- Find whatever byzantine command you need to run it to verify it

- Of course it doesn't work, ask your coworker

- Oh did you remember to flub the flabnabber? echo "1" > /dev/i2c5 then restart the flabnabber-daemon

- Run the fking thing and it works

- 3 hours has passed

Wow is working in embedded great. But I think that this is basically everything. The time isn't building the shelf, it's figuring out exactly which hinges are right for what I want it to do, it's measuring and measuring and sanding, it's multiple runs to home depot.

ALL of this _is_ "doing the thing". They are all prerequisites and as such are part of the task.