Becoming a developer

I know this will sound strange for a tester, but I'm actually developing at the moment! Even though I have no background of developing and actually have no clue what I'm doing (feeling like a senior developer already ;)). No, I'm not doing any C# or other new program language only real developers understand...I'm programming in VB....yes you guessed right: Excel!!

Easy thing about Excel is creating macros by recording them and change a bit to your needs. And I'm actually quite enjoying it even though I know my coding sucks. It's not really easy to maintain, it's not flexible (hardcoded) and it's probably full of bugs :) is

Why would I even start programming then? Well, it's becoming a sort of hobby trying to automate my Excel sheets in such a way that I don't have to do any repetitive work. Especially when filtering (e.g.) bugs or creating workloads for other testers, this can be done with just one simple click and a neat sheet will be created (and even printed or mailed if needed). I know the time I invest in this programming is not always won back when I would have done it by hand. But I always try to look to the future and a way to transfer these documents to others (so they can win that time).

The more I create, the more it's beginning to look like a real application (with popup windows, buttons and all :)). So who's going to test the stray tester and his hobby sheets? Maybe a developer should be the one who test this.