Test In Production: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The endless cycle of software development in four painful panels. QA finds a bug that shouldn't exist ("a circle in the triangle factory"), escalates to junior devs who escalate to senior devs, who finally check it out... only to casually announce "I guess we doin' circles now." No discussion, no documentation, no questions asked. The feature that was once a bug is now a roadmap item! This is basically how half the "features" in your favorite software came to exist. No wonder tech debt is the only thing growing faster than AWS bills.

Content Top 20 Replies by Programmers when their programs don't work... 20. That's weird... 19. It's never done that before. 18. It worked yesterday. 17. How is that possible? 16. It must be a hardware problem. 15. What did you type in wrong to get it to crash? 14. There has to be something funky in your data. 13. I haven't touched that module in weeks! 12. You must have the wrong version. 11. It's just some unlucky coincidence. 10. I can't test everything! 9. THIS can't be the source of THAT. 8. It works, but it hasn't been tested. 7. Somebody must have changed my code. 6. Did you check for a virus on your system? 5. Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel? 4. You can't use that version on your system. 3. Why do you want to do it that way? 2. Where were you when the program blew up? 1. It works on my machine.

Content NEVER HAVE I FELT SO CLOSE TO ANOTHER SOUL AND YET SO HELPLESSLY ALONE AS WHEN I GOOGLE AN ERROR AND THERE'S ONE RESULT A THREAD BY SOMEONE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM AND NO ANSWER LAST POSTED TO IN 2003 WHO WERE YOU, DENVERCODER9? WHAT DID VOU SEE?A

The corporate theater of "Scrum" in its natural habitat. Company claims they're using Scrum methodology, but when pressed for details, they confess it's actually waterfall with sprints awkwardly bolted on—basically waterfall wearing a Scrum costume. It's like claiming you're vegan while eating a burger and explaining "Well, I chew in 2-week increments." The relief on the questioner's face says it all: finally, someone admitted what everyone already knew. The charade can end, and actual work can begin.

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Content HOW DID YOU FIX ALL THE BUGS IN SUCH A SHORT SPAN OF TIME? I DELETED ALL THE TEST CASES THAT WERE FAILING. workchronicles.com - WAIT, WHAT?! Comics about work. Made with lots of coffee. Get the comics straight to your Inbox. Join the Newsletter. Work Chronicles workchronicles.com