Thursday, January 13, 2011

Testing Team vs Development Team

How Testing Team(Roshan D'Mello) frustrates Development Team (Mukesh Thakur)

Roshan D'Mello: Hey Mukesh, there is a bug in your code. Type a text
in user name text box and press enter. Beep sound doesn't appear.

Mukesh Thakur: How can that be a bug? There is no requirement that
beep sound should come. Anyway, I will assign it to offshore and get
it fixed.

After 2 days,

Mukesh Thakur: Roshan, bug is fixed. Please verify.

After another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello: I have re-opened the bug because sound is not coming
in some PCs. Sound is coming in my machine, but my colleague Rajat
Choudhry is not getting the sound.

After another 2 days,

Mukesh Thakur: Not a bug. I observed that your friend Rajat Choudhry
has old IBM machine. Unlike your DELL machine, IBM machines do not
have inbuilt speakers. So, to hear the sound in Rajat Choudhry's
machine, please use head phones and then get the bug closed soon.

Another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello: I have re-opened the bug because sound tone is
different across different machines. Sound is coming as 'BEEP' in my
machine, but my colleague Rajat Choudhry who is having IBM machine is
getting the sound as 'TONG'.

Mukesh Thakur: Not a bug. Get lost man. What can we do for the bug?
The two machines are built in such a way that they produce different
sounds. Do you expect the developers to rebuild the IBM processors to
make them uniform? Please close it.

Another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello: I have re-opened the bug because intensity of beep
sound produced on 2 different DELL machines is different. My machine
produces beep sound of intensity 10 decibels whereas my friend's
machine produces sound worth 20 decibels. Fix your code to make the
sound uniform across all machines.

Another 2 days later,

Mukesh Thakur: Once again it is not a bug. I have noticed that the
volume set is different on the two machines. Ensure that volume is
same in both the machines before I get mad and then close the bug.

Another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello: I have re-opened the bug.

Mukesh Thakur: What ?? Why? What more stupid reasons can be there for
re-opening?

Roshan D'Mello: Sound intensity is different for machines placed at
different locations (different buildings). So, I have re-opened it.

After 2 days,

Mukesh Thakur: I have made some scientists do an acoustical analysis
of the two buildings you used for testing. They have observed that the
acoustics in the two buildings varies to a large extent. That is why
sound intensity is different across the 2 buildings. So, I beg you to
please close the bugs.

After 1 year

Roshan D'Mello: I am re-opeing the bug. During the year, I requested
the clients to arrange architects to build two buildings with same
acoustical features, so that I can test it again. Now, when I tested,
I found that intensity of sound still varying. So, I am re-opening the
defect.

Mukesh Thakur: GROWLLLL…..I am really mad now. I am sure that the
sound waves of the two buildings are getting distorted due to some
background noice or something. Now I need to waste time to prove that
it is because of background noice.

Roshan D'Mello: No need for that. We will put the machines and run
them in vacuum and see.

Mukesh Thakur: (not alive)

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