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Love this, 100% accurate. QA people are amazing, protect us from ourselves in so many ways we didn’t even think of.
I wish our test team was like that. Ours would respond with something like “How would I test this?”
But they still don’t think of all common user possibilities. I like this joke:
A software tester walks into a bar.
Runs into a bar.
Crawls into a bar.
Dances into a bar.
Flies into a bar.
Jumps into a bar.
And orders:
a beer.
2 beers.
0 beers.
99999999 beers.
a lizard in a beer glass.
-1 beer.
“qwertyuiop” beers.
Testing complete.
A real customer walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.
The bar goes up in flames.
Bathroom testing was not in scope.
This one’s on management.
You know, I feel like management deciding what is and isn’t in scope on their own is itself asking for trouble.
Most of the best QA folks I’ve worked with had teenage children.
I imagine dealing with developers is similar.
I love working with competent QA engineers. It’s always a humbling experience.
I learned more about how computers work from them than I did in all my schooling.
Hey! My company just fired ours today!
After all, most delays can directly be traced to the QA department. Wise business decision!
Yes, I second this. QA has caught so many things that did not cross my mind, effectively saving everyone from many painful releases
It’s also the system administrator and SRE mindset.
The programmer’s answer?
We don’t support that use case.
“Works for me and my sister.”
Then we’ll ship you and your sister.
And that’s how docker was born!
Either that or incest porn.
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Physicist: “assuming a spherical year …”
In a frictionless vacuum
Id hate to experience a vaccum with friction.
Ahhh I’m rubbing up against all this nothing so roughly it feels almost sticky
All I wanted was a cubical day
TIMECUBE!
Time slipping through the fingers with an acceleration of g
Based on the only comparison we have, the OP is twice the age of their sister. so the sister is now 44/2, or 22. Easy problem.
Based on the only information we have, OPs sister is two. So the sister is 2. Trivial.
ML in action.
I’m working on a gameboy emulator and the amount of edge cases you have to consider feels just like this lol.
Fails to consider the case in which the 2-year-old sister is now male.
Also that you have died or that she is now of no gender
It definitely does.
If your parents had another daughter in the meantime (or if your older brother became female), “my sister” would still be a valid reference, to a completely different person.
I design software, another guy builds it, then I test it. I seem to have a really good intuition for ferreting out the edgiest of edge cases and generating bugs. Pretty sure he hates my guts.
Project Managers and software designers are hated for their “designing”. The testing is always very welcome.
Am I an oddball in that as a developer, that QA answer is the sort of answer I give? It annoys management to no end.
Nope, a good developer asks exactly the first thing with the birthdays. If you don’t have proper data it’s impossible to give the correct answer. This is the difference from an experienced developer to a junior.
How are edge cases supposed to be covered if the developer can’t imagine them? It would save SO MUCH time if everyone were as detail oriented and creative as you.
Didn’t even consider leap years. Smh
That’s the customer answer, where they give an age in leap years, and everything goes to pot.
Real talk: I wish more orgs place a high value on QA. A good QA team is worth it’s weight in gold and helps prevent a lot of stupid mistakes.
I used to have a QA job. Can confirm, this is the soup in my head. That’s why I was good at testing. Also, that’s not your sister. That’s your trans brother, who we also love. See?
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I’m a Dev with no QA so i just have to be neurotically pedantic so nobody goes to jail
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I think it’s more about how testers always run into all the edge cases programmers don’t think about
Can confirm, not even an official tester (just an open beta tester) and have acrued a reputation for having a legendary bug aura that can cause catastrophic and previously unseen edge cases to occur just by opening the software (game)
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I mean, no, the tester didn’t say anything wrong here, and all of those (and more) are conditions one must take into account if one were to write a piece of software without errors
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No, the meeting could have been an email
Also misses the edge case where sister was born on a leap day
Or maybe in a country that recently switched from the Julian calendar, adding the possibility of >12 months between birthdays as described by calendar.
https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/calendars has entered the chat.
Also, as ever, relevant XKCD.
If you were 4 and now you are 44 then you might be an integer variable. If sister is also a variable, we don’t know when she was allocated. She might also be an integer constant in which case she’s arguably immortal.
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