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The Little Tester #82

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.

(Source: imalittletester)

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

404 caused by clumsy whales

ThanX a lot to Balz Gilgen who handed over to me his draft for this cartoon.
I didn't have to change too much. I took it almost 1:1. Check yourself below.

Further reading on a real whale who got tangled:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231000-400-hacker-the-humpback-whale-who-got-tangled-in-an-internet-cable/

(Source: Simply the Test)

The Little Tester #81

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.

(Source: imalittletester)

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 #80

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.

(Source: imalittletester)

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 #79

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.

(Source: imalittletester)

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 #78

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.

(Source: imalittletester)

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 Demo Effect

Originally, the text was "wait until the sprint review is over, then let's go out and show up again", but the scene is less funny with the previous text. The current one turns this cartoon into a more common situation, aka. the demo-effect.

The original text  has its root in a real story. Long time ago (not in the company I work right now), the product owner regularly moved all reported defects to a low priority heap shortly before the sprint review only to put them back into the next sprint right after the review. The goal was to shine with a good product having non-important bugs. With this approach he kept the release manager quiet, because the release manager was looking at high priority bugs only shortly before the review. If there weren't any left, the product owners were out of the line of fire.

It's like in Patriot Games, where the secret armed forces in the desert knew exactly when the spy satellite flied over their hidden military camp. They tided up everything shortly before it reach theri coordinatesand then they rebuilt the camp after it had passed (until next time).

(Source: Simply the Test)

The Little Tester #77

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.

(Source: imalittletester)

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