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The Little Tester #68

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 #67

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 challenge of prioritizing bugs

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(Source: Simply the Test)

Commitment above-average

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(Source: Simply the Test)

The Little Tester #66

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." 🤷‍♀️

How dare you, Lambretta?

Usually I am testing software, but today, I "enjoyed" a 15 minute test ride on a brand-new Lambretta and
I decided to add my personal results to my cartoon blog even though this blog is mainly for software testing.

My goal today was to check-out whether the great Lambretta revival edition it is an alternative
to my beloved but seriously broken Vespa. I've read the Lambretta advertisment in the news. I checked many pictures and it made me curious. The longer I googled the more excited I got, and I also checked the price which seemed reasonable to me, until the moment I saw it live.

The positive things I noted was the quiet motor and the firm road holding at the speed of 80km/h. Something I wasn't used to my current Vespa. Also the design of the new Lambretta is great and remembering these great ages of the Sixties, but wait...everything is made out of plastic now.
I understand that in order to save fuel, you need to consider weight, but ...the front, the fender, the wings, I mean everything? Come-on! Considering that this scooter is celebrated as the big revival of Lambretta, I really had NOT expected to meet a plastic toy.

When I did my test ride, the next thing I noticed was the oversized LCD monitor just below the analog speedo. While I think it is kind of weird to add an LCD monitor to a vintage-a-like scooter, there was something else that really worried me. The LCD is so big that you can hardly read your current speed in the analog display above the LCD. That's not just a minor bug, this is a serious issue which can lead the rider to spend too much time searching for the needle. Time that may be needed elsewhere.

Here is what I don't understand in these days....designers do a great job making products look great, developers do a hard job implementing the requirements and testers test the hell out of these products to make sure, the customer doesn't get disappointed. And then, you meet a potential client in the shop who realizes within minutes what she is presented by the sales guy is nothing but a two-bit plastic toy, made in China. I need to ask that question to product management: "How dare you?" ;O)

(Source: Simply the Test)

Friday afternoon at Green Galactica

The exciting moment on a Friday afternoon when you get presented the latest changes from someone who either struggles to put himself into the shoes of the customer or who wants to hide something.

Fortunately, I work in an agile environment where such a scneario doesn't happen very often, but once, I caught myself passing a set of acceptance test cases to a customer with the goal to deviate the client from the broken pieces and let him focus on the stuff we knew that worked.

(Source: Simply the Test)

He just knew too much

A software tester was found dead due to an overdose of drugs yesterday evening at his home in lower Manhattan, New York. His body was discovered before dawn on Sunday, October 5. He was a professional software tester and known for his strategies in spotting even hard to find bugs. An interviewed friend on site believes, he was murdered. "The tester was threatened several times by suspicious phone calls", he said. The police states they have found traces left by ugly critters at the crime scene. The police also stated, the main suspect was identified as Dendro Ponderosa, a modified name which has its roots in the Latin name Dendroctonus ponderosae, a mountain pine beetle and a remote relative of Dendro. The police published an appropriate mug shot of the suspect.
Reported by Formica Rufa ("The Daily Bug")

(Source: Simply the Test)

The Little Tester #65

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." 🤷‍♀️

BETA Test at Green Galactica

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(Source: Simply the Test)