Republished mostly from this blog entry here..
Here’s my version of “Things Programmers Say..”
- “That’s weird….”
- “It’s never done that before.”
- “It worked yesterday.”
- “How is that possible?”
- “It must be a hardware problem.”
- “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
- “There is something funky in your data. OR It’s a data problem, not a program problem.”
- “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!”
- “You must have the wrong version.”
- “It’s just some unlucky coincidence.”
- “I can’t test everything!”
- “THIS can’t be the source of THAT.”
- “It works, but it hasn’t been tested.”
- “Somebody must have changed my code.”
- “Did you check for a virus on your system?”
- “Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?”
- “You can’t use that version on your system.”
- “Why do you want to do it that way?”
- “Where were you when the program blew up?”
- “It works on my machine.”
- “That’s not a bug, it’s a feature”
- “So raise a defect”
- “Who told you you could install IE7?”
- “It’s PRE-release!”
- “Save it for the bug bash”
- “Can’t repro”
- “That’s not what the requirement says”
- “Look at the wireframe!”
- “Try rebooting”
- “hmmmmmm”
- “Do that again!”
- “Two words: change request”
- “it’s not technically possible”
- “it’s not possible, technically”
- “it helps if you can think like a computer”
- “that’s not a computer error, it’s a user error”
