The Bipolar Life Of A Software Tester – Continued

Eric Jacobsen from testthisblog.com started this little rant about his bipolar life as a tester. You should read it, it is very entertaining. It describes precisely what we feel from time to time. So we felt encouraged to continue.

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Cool, developers have marked most of my bugs as resolved. Maybe we will be able to launch the project in time!

No, wait…

I will be busy doing retests most of the day. This sucks. I won’t be able to continue my scheduled test cases for today. Test management won’t be too happy with me. I hate doing all these retests.

I’m so proud, because I have completed all my test cases in record time and found so many bugs! I’m a testing ninja! I might be able to go home early.

No, wait…

What’s that? Test management has assigned a whole bunch of new test cases to me? Is this my reward for working quickly? Life is not fair.

But I found this really big bug minutes ago. Wohooo! No regular user will be able to work with that feature. It’s a usability nightmare! Hope they will fix this soon. No way they can go live with this one. …I’m a representative of “a regular user”, right? I won’t even look at the specification. This cannot be right!

No, wait…

I took a look at the specification. It is expected to work like that. The design agency sold this as “visionary approach”. What do do now?

Poor developers! I feel honest sympathy for them. All these bugs I submit really cause a lot of work.

No, wait…

Why can’t they build it right from the beginning? I have so much more work to do, just because they deliver a buggy system.

No, wait…

Would I have a job, if all developers would create perfectly well running software? I should be happy that they are a little sloppy sometimes.

Wait a moment, is this a bug? The weather forecast mentioned “light snow in the afternoon”. I would rather call it “heavy-snowish” – and it is pretty late too.

No, wait…

Maybe this is a “Works as designed”?

P.S: Feel free to continue.

Our Top 6 Software Testing Trends 2013

Happy New Year to everybody! Time to think about 2013 and the work ahead of us.

The ecommerce market is growing and becoming more competitive every day. This means, the customer experience is going to play an even bigger role in 2013. Online shops are expected to be stylish and beautifully designed – but customers are getting more demanding in terms of performance and usability on multiple devices.

The following topics are our point of view on the most important issue that will keep us busy in 2013.
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