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Welcome to Weirdo-Land

I just wanted to draw an oldtimer Porsche Speedster 356 of the Fifties. Usually I am less addicted to sports cars, but this one is an exception. I watched an interesting report by Jay Leno about a 356 replica bulit by JPS Motorsports and since then can…

Baffled sequenceIDs

Sorry folks, Insider. I don’t know how I can better generalize the cartoon so it is also funny for those who haven’t experienced our exciting moments we had with our love-hate relationship-sequence IDs. The counter was reset after each deployment. It r…

No undo in the elevator

A nice test pattern to apply while testing software, is to revert all changes performed on one object or more, either by sending the keys CTRL-Z as often as possible or by using any other provided cancel/revert/undo operation if it exists. An interesti…

Ready to take off – or good enough to go live?

Many, many years back, when I drew the first version of the cartoon on a draft piece of paper, I was inspired by an email sent out to everyone claiming the software is good enough to go live although the software never went through proper testing. Onl…

A lesson in Test Patterns

I recently had a workshop at the SwissQ offices in Zurich about common test patterns and how I am looking for bugs. I showed a draft of this cartoon, and this was the only moment where they were really laughing out loud…so I thought it might be worth…