One of my friend sent me an email with subject “Top 10 Excuses Made by Programmers”, I think you might have received such mails or read on some blog or any where on the internet, but I feel its worth sharing. I believe this have been very true if you think for while or look around in your team. Developers have been making these excuses very frequently; if you are a Quality Assurance/Test engineer you will support my argument. Here are the 10 most common excuses made by the programmers:
10. “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!”
9. “It must be a hardware problem.”
8. “Somebody must have changed my code.”
7. “Did you check for a virus on your system?”
6. “You must have the wrong version.”
5. “That’s weird…”
4. “There must be something wrong with your data”
3. “It’s never done that before.”
2. “It worked yesterday.”
and the best one
1. “It works on my machine”
How many of these excuses you made in your career? Share your experiences.
I am an experienced SQA Engineer, and from these 10 points, I have almost heard 90 percent of them.
Great ! Finding
Zia Khan
Yes. I have been in compuer field for the last 6 years and following are alomost everyday excuses
“It works on my machine”
“You must have the wrong version”
“Somebody must have changed my code”
“It worked yesterday”
Yup thats right
It’s impossible, is the excuse widely used. I did use many times but at last you have to do it whether you like it or not.
LOL
Hi,
Great indeed, but what I like most is the excuse of Programmers for not delevering software on time.
One of my favorites:
1- We did’t see that case (of course thay did, but as they were short timed they ignored it to respect the dead line).
2- We didn’t test it on Windows 98/Me, who use it nowadays, even Microsoft don’t support it anymore (the Pb is that 20% of custumers still use it !!)
3- It is too late, you should have ask for it before, we are in gold certification
4- In your specifications it was written this, and we did exactly what is wrtittent (even if it is stupid !).
5- Sorry, we were waiting for your answer, and as you did’t answer quickly enough we had to decide (2h is enough).
And the best one: “We were waiting for your specifications, if you don’t send us them in the next few hours the product will be delay, and it will be YOUR fault !”
And :
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!
lol