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The Little Tester #94

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.

The team members are:

• Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
• Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
• Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
• Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
• Kitty, the Scrum Master.
• Glasses, the Business Analyst.
• And the manager.

Disclaimer

• This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

• The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.

• The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.

Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷‍♀️

The Little Tester #93

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.

The team members are:

• Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
• Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
• Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
• Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
• Kitty, the Scrum Master.
• Glasses, the Business Analyst.
• And the manager.

Disclaimer

• This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

• The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.

• The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.

Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷‍♀️

Doozy! Only two bugs left.

(Source: Simply the Test)

The Little Tester #92

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.

The team members are:

• Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
• Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
• Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
• Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
• Kitty, the Scrum Master.
• Glasses, the Business Analyst.
• And the manager.

Disclaimer

• This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

• The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.

• The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.

Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷‍♀️

The Little Tester #91

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.

The team members are:

• Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
• Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
• Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
• Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
• Kitty, the Scrum Master.
• Glasses, the Business Analyst.
• And the manager.

Disclaimer

• This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

• The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.

• The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.

Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷‍♀️

The Little Tester #90

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.

The team members are:

• Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
• Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
• Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
• Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
• Kitty, the Scrum Master.
• Glasses, the Business Analyst.
• And the manager.

Disclaimer

• This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

• The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.

• The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.

Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷‍♀️

The Little Tester #89

These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.

The team members are:

• Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
• Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
• Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
• Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
• Kitty, the Scrum Master.
• Glasses, the Business Analyst.
• And the manager.

Disclaimer

• This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

• The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.

• The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.

Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷‍♀️

Bad luck !

According to the table below(published by the New York Times [1] today on March 20), New York has almost 7 times the amount of registered infected Corona patients but "only" about 0.5% of them have died so far.

That's quite a good quota (for Corona). Let's have a look at the other side of the continent. There is Washington. Their deathrate is nearly 6%. That's quite a contrast. What can be the reason for these differences? In most other States the mortality rate is roughly around the usual of 2%.
Here are some (not seriously meant) hypotheses a manager might conclude from the published table:

• The New Yorkers are either doing something extremly right and those in Washington are doing something extremely wrong

• The dirty air in New York is poison for the virus. The more CO2, the better for human beings. Bad news for Greta Thunberg.

• Closer: New York may not be a typical state for eldery people to relax...,probably more young and healthy people live there while in Washington may be a pan of sick or eldery people spend the rest of their lives there (again, this isn't meant seriously, okay?)

• New York was better prepared for this predictable disaster

• or...the measures may have been taken inconsistently and/or the numbers are simply wrong

Let's get more curious and read the full article. We find valuable information by reading the details and start to understand what happened. It is noted that 2900 of the reported cases in New York were all registered only today. Interesting, probably it is too early for those new cases to die. If we ignore these new cases (7102-2900), we still have a quite good quote of 0.8%. Better than in many countries worldwide. But further reading the article reveals “At least 35 of the deaths were connected to a single nursing center in Washington" and "...many of those cases involved older people with other health problems that made them especially vulnerable to coronavirus”.

(Source: Simply the Test)