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When You Forget To Set Upper Bounds

Programming Debugging Testing Frontend

1 year ago 297.4K views 0 shares

When You Forget To Set Upper Bounds

Ah yes, the classic computer science problem: ambiguous requirements. Woman asks computer to notify her about "hot" temperatures. Computer responds with "Please define hot" because computers need precise parameters. She casually mentions "1.9 million Kelvins" (which is roughly the temperature of the sun's core). Later, some guy orders "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." and the entire universe apparently bursts into flames. Guess the computer finally got its definition of "hot" and decided to demonstrate. Just another day in software development where unclear specifications lead to cosmic catastrophe.

Did This Get Resolved

Agile Programming Testing Debugging Webdev

1 year ago 316.1K views 2 shares

Did This Get Resolved

Product Manager: "I want developers to lower me into my grave so they can LET ME DOWN one last time." Developer: "At least this requirement is clear." QA Engineer: "But is it though? With coffin or without? Which developers? What's the timeline? Need acceptance criteria for 'lowering'. Please clarify the definition of 'grave'. What's our fallback plan if developers are unavailable? Have we considered edge cases like zombie apocalypse?" The eternal dev cycle: PM makes vague request → Dev thinks they understand → QA finds 47 ambiguities that nobody considered. Rinse and repeat until retirement... or funeral.