Thursday, September 20, 2007

Top 20 Replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don’t work

Top 20 Replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don’t work

20. “That’s weird…”
19. “It’s never done that before.”
18. “It worked yesterday.”
17. “How is that possible?”
16. “It must be a hardware problem.”
15. “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
14. “There is something funky in your data.”
13. “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!”
12. “You must have the wrong version.”
11. “It’s just some unlucky coincidence.”
10. “I can’t test everything!”
9. “THIS can’t be the source of THAT.”
8. “It works, but it hasn’t been tested.”
7. “Somebody must have changed my code.”
6. “Did you check for a virus on your system?”
5. “Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
4. “You can’t use that version on your system.”
3. “Why do you want to do it that way?”
2. “Where were you when the program blew up?”
And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their programs don’t work: Guess…………..
“It works on my machine”

3 comments:

AFAQ said...

Afaq to murali...
Thnaks bhai... yep you are right about my post "HOW ARE YOU?...

BTW i have read your Top 20 reasons by a programmer to a tester before too...
this is really a good one....
why dont you start blogginng again..will love to read.

The moment called Life said...

Thanks Afaq, i think the keeda of writing again started
Thanks to you too mate on this
Let me first make a start ...................

Chapters From My Life said...

Good to know this info... let them give me one of that next time and see the result ggrrrr...
:)