Infamous Last Words
Programmers are infamous for trying to pass the buck when there appears to be a problem with their program and they are facing their accuser who is pointing the finger at them. For many years I have been amused at the new answers that the “innocent” developer comes up with before finally having to admit that they blew it. A short list is compiled below.
“Sounds like a hardware problem to me…”
“I only changed one line and it wasn’t in that area of the program…”
“It runs on my machine…”
“I tested it once and it ran ok. If it runs once, it will run every time, right?”
“I only made a change to the database; it would not cause a problem in the program…”
“The program has been running for 5 months and I never had a problem, I don’t think it’s the program…”
"Why would you ask if the change had been through QA?"
This one really backfires when you tell the user, who is a customer, “It sounds like an ID10T Error.” I personally don’t recommend that one be used at all.
Should you have some that you have heard, please comment on this blog.
posted by Les Smith @ 1:08 PM
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3 Comments:
LMAO - yea I've been there and said those things :[
yeah, really. all practical. it comes ups with most of devs.
May be one of newest that i said recently to my lead (may be due tight deadline and pressure):
"I changed (small)the code and asked tester to test she said Ok to it, so didn't bother to think about the real logic behind the impact of changes. I was also suspecting that it will not work but if she said OK so i did not bother." i had involved 2 days to fix that issue and then i reverted that with small change due to performance issue in SP and was expecting to work without much bothering to unit test.
(hmm.. seems me not a good blogger)
"It runs on my machine"
"Corre en mi maquina". Es de lo mas usual.
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