Thursday, July 09, 2009

QA Words of Wisdom


* FAME! I wanna test forever! I want to get to the bug. FAME!
* I know one thing. Indecision may or may not be my problem.
* This is not a bug. It’s a feature! (Product Manager’s Dictionary)
* Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
* Never say “Oooops” … always say “Ahhh, interesting…”
* Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out
* Weiler’s Law says that nothing is impossible for those who don’t have to do it themselves.
* Developer when code doesn’t work: ‘I thought I fixed that.’
* Developer when code doesn’t work: ‘It works, but it hasn’t been tested.’
* “Shhh!!! Be vewwy vewwy quiet! I’m hunting bugs!”
* Going to add a bug ??? remember !!! the QA team is always the last one at the door
* Ok, UNICODE is…. Wait, which Unicode are you talking about?
* Klingon software does not have bugs. It has features, and those features are too sophisticated for a Romulan pig like you to understand.
* Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
* If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
* Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.
* A known bug is better than an unknown feature.
* Real Programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.