Below are the "Top 20 Replies By Programmers to Testers when their Programs Don't Work". In fact, I think it should be extended to "Replies to Users" as well! I extracted these top 20 from the blog, "Under the Sun" (some folks at Digg.com said this is a blogspam and other similar entries existed long ago, but who cares!). Personally, I have used some of the replies before and I want to post it here to share with the rest of the like-minded programmers friends who haven't been spammed by it before! #18 and #1 are my favourites. Heh heh. What's yours? Well, actually most of the time, I will ask them "what exactly did you do before it crashed?". Sometimes its not a bug, but a "user-problem" or its a new "feature". ha ha. Seriously, if its a bug, we must fix it. If it isn't, we must educate the users. At the end of the day, we must think how come our program doesn't stop it from happening. =p
And here they are, the top 20 *drumrolls*:
And here they are, the top 20 *drumrolls*:
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."
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."
Comments
Have you tried turning it(computer) off and on again?
:P