{"id":740,"date":"2005-11-04T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-03-25T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:04:23","slug":"developer-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2005\/11\/04\/developer-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cenriqueortiz.com\/weblog\/General\/?permalink=Developers-Top-10-replies-when-code-doesnt-work.html\">Every tester hears these sooner or later<\/a>; some of them are straight from the mouths of developers I&#8217;ve worked with, or so it seems:\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"nobullet\">\n<li>10. &#8216;That&#8217;s weird&#8230;&#8217; <\/li>\n<li>9. &#8216;It&#8217;s never done that before.&#8217; <\/li>\n<li>8. &#8216;It worked yesterday.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>7. &#8216;You must have the wrong version.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>6. &#8216;It works, but it hasn&#8217;t been tested.&#8217; <\/li>\n<li>5. &#8216;Somebody must have changed my code.&#8217; <\/li>\n<li>4. &#8216;Did you check for a virus?&#8217; <\/li>\n<li>3. &#8216;Where were you when the program blew up?&#8217;\n<li>2. &#8216;Why do you want to do it that way?&#8217; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAnd from comments: &#8216;It works on my PC&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Our version of that last remark is &#8220;it works in the debug version&#8221;. Such a pity you cannot deliver debug code to customers&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every tester hears these sooner or later; some of them are straight from the mouths of developers I&#8217;ve worked with, or so it seems: 10. &#8216;That&#8217;s weird&#8230;&#8217; 9. &#8216;It&#8217;s never done that before.&#8217; 8. &#8216;It worked yesterday.&#8217; 7. &#8216;You must have the wrong version.&#8217; 6. &#8216;It works, but it hasn&#8217;t been tested.&#8217; 5. &#8216;Somebody must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,217],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-this-n-that","tag-software-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}