Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Programmer's reply

I got the below contents as part of a forwarded mail. Definitely worth reading it and of course having a check on how many of the answers we have given so far! Btw, I have said almost everything at some point of time! :)

Top 20 replies by Programmers to QA 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 would be:

"It works on my machine"

3 comments:

Mridul said...

Fwd'ing to my testing team ;-)

Srini said...

I got this forwarded from one of the members in the testing team! :)

Anonymous said...

I think Mridul fwded this to me once!

-Mini Menon