Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers
I received a pretty interesting response from a developer today, which make me think of this list immediately:
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?"
1. "It
works on my machine"
Sigh...