Are you or do you work with Programmers?

[David Whatley]

Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work

COUNT DOWN......

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?"

1. "It works on my machine"

Replies by Programmers to Testers when their software don't work.

[rages4calm]

Thats not all programmers :-P those are just mostly the ones that work in india who don't speak english lmao

I don't do that anyways ^_^

[jerrykr]

I've said most of these, and was serious when I said it.



-=- Jerry -=-
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[simon]

Originally Posted by rages4calm

Thats not all programmers :-P those are just mostly the ones that work in india who don't speak english lmao

I don't do that anyways ^_^

Some of the worst programmers I've ever experienced were from the bay area ... at least as bad as anything outsourced to India. And some of the best were Indian (not surprising, you get something like 5x the pool of really clever people to pull from), so those sorts of generalizations really don't work.

[jeffkohn]

It's almost always "user error"...

[kenw]

what I've always wondered (I worked in computer design + mfg for 30 years) is why development and testing of software is done on the latest and greatest, biggest and badest hardware, but sold to be installed on 5-10 year old 14th generation hand-me-down computers........

and then they wonder why people call and yell.....

[brad]

You left off my favorite...

"Hunh."

[Daniel Bates]

I use many of those more often than I'd care to admit.

[David Whatley]

We have two in house, born and raised Texan programmers and we hear this and more on a daily basis. And yes I did send it to them and the tester :)

[dstarr]

How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

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none, it's a hardware problem

[suzyjazz]

Originally Posted by jerrykr

I've said most of these, and was serious when I said it.



-=- Jerry -=-
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Ditto. My favorite is "It used to work."

[brad]

Originally Posted by suzyjazz

Ditto. My favorite is "It used to work."

Heh.. my favorite is:

"That's weird..."

I was always saying that... LOL

[Jim Neely]

I also have used many of those. Users keep screwing stuff up. ;-)

jn

[jerrykr]

so now that all the programmers are gathered up,

what does the /* mean at the end of all my posts?

no, it's not the beginning of a comment line, you have to go back further than that.

-=- Jerry -=-
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[rages4calm]

My all time favorite is going to have to be
"Are you using Windows?" or "What version of windows are you using?"