This ‘N That

Developer excuses

Published on November 4, 2005

Every tester hears these sooner or later; some of them are straight from the mouths of developers I’ve worked with, or so it seems:

10. ‘That’s weird…’
9. ‘It’s never done that before.’
8. ‘It worked yesterday.’
7. ‘You must have the wrong version.’
6. ‘It works, but it hasn’t been tested.’
5. ‘Somebody must have changed my code.’
4. ‘Did you check for a virus?’
3. ‘Where were you when the program blew up?’
2. ‘Why do you want to do it that way?’

And from comments: ‘It works on my PC’

(Our version of that last remark is “it works in the debug version”. Such a pity you cannot deliver debug code to customers…)

Am I the only one who is getting annoyed with Boing Boing‘s obsession with porn stories? There are interesting stories to be told about the porn industry, but Boing Boing’s current efforts are all a bit too hipster for me. The general tone of these things has that sort of arch amusement, detached irony that I hate intensely, not to mention that I get the feeling that the Boingsters are getting a bit too impressed with their own cleverness.