Comments on: The First Famous Software Bug http://blog.utest.com/the-first-famous-software-bug/2009/09/ Software Testing Community Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pat Woods http://blog.utest.com/the-first-famous-software-bug/2009/09/comment-page-1/#comment-14529 Pat Woods Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:58:55 +0000 http://blog.utest.com/?p=1624#comment-14529 My favorite bugs are the ones the get left in because of the following....and we have all heard it.... "Cannot reproduce on my system" (the developer is working on his desk top and I am testing on an integrated system.....well, duh!) "No one would ever do that" - (I just did) "No one should ever do that" - (Did you tell them that?) "That is a non-production test condition". (But it is possible to create the condition....so shouldn't you get something better than a system 404 error?) We don't have time for negative testing....we would be at this all day!! My favorite bugs are the ones the get left in because of the following….and we have all heard it….

“Cannot reproduce on my system” (the developer is working on his desk top and I am testing on an integrated system…..well, duh!)

“No one would ever do that” – (I just did)

“No one should ever do that” – (Did you tell them that?)

“That is a non-production test condition”. (But it is possible to create the condition….so shouldn’t you get something better than a system 404 error?)

We don’t have time for negative testing….we would be at this all day!!

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