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[To the tune of The Beatles' Octopus' Garden] I wish that I could be A tester who sees Bugs before they happen Yes I do I'd point them out With joy my dev would shout Because over that one He wouldn't stew My PM would say "Away you must not stray Because
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[To John Rox's "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas", which has long been my favorite holiday song, and not only because it is accompanied by solo bassoon!] I want a BVT blocking bug for the holidays* A BVT blocking bug I'm asking for Don't want no UI
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[To the tune of Van Halen's Finish What Ya Started] Come on Barry finish what ya started Into your office all these bugs I've carted Now fire up your IDE There's quite a lot I agree You wanted bugs, now you've got them Now fire up your big brain stem
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[To the tune of Wang Chung's Let's Go] This is my application It is perfect in every way All that is left is for you to sign off So I'll leave you to your work And I'll go home to sleep It won't take you long, my code is so boff I wish you’d stop what
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[To the tune of Barry Manilow's "Copacabana"] His name is Bobby, he is a tester He finds bugs that crash his app and interrupt his devs' naps He knocks on their doors, and they see his grin They ask him what he found and into their office he does bound
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[To the tune of “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”] Well the code my dev checked in is frightful, And the bugs he checked in are delightful. I hear we’re going to ship today, That’s why he did this all yesterday. The bug database is overflowing.
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[To the tune of Elton John's "Your Song"] It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside Not knowing whether I am deaf or I am blind I programmed this thing to extend my senses Now all I can tell is I'm not eating blintzes If I was a PM, but then again,
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Rather than spending hours crafting a post this week, I decided to spend hours crafting a cartoon (click to see it bigger): Other captions which didn't make the cut: "So you're the new tester, are you?" Jim's "Most Bugs In A Single Checkin" award was
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[With apologies to Rick James...] She's quite the super dev The kind who tests and tests and tests now She will always give you good builds And she loves when you find bugs she writes She likes the testers on the team She says that I'm her all-time favorite
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[To the tune of "Here Comes Santa Claus"] Here comes a developer, here comes a developer, Right down software lane. Slinging code and flinging bugs, Oh my they are so vain! They think that once their code compiles It must be all right; Bugs don't matter
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[With apologies to the Monotones...] I wonder, wonder who, who-oo-ooh WHO Who wrote the Book Of Bugs? Tell me, tell me, tell me Oh, who wrote the Book Of Bugs? I've got to know the answer; Musta been someone who loved to debug. Oh, I wonder, wonder who,
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(with apologies to MC Hammer; various parts of chori blatantly plaigarized from Weird Al Yankovic) I can't test this. I can't test this. I can't test this. I can't test this. My my my my application crashes so hard Makes my left flank want to guard. What
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With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Julie Andrews: BVT blockers and feature team meetings, Checking in code and build folder cleanings, Making my dev cry with hardly a strain: These are a few of my favorite things. Installing new builds and
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Microsoft requires any vehicle parked on campus to be registered. Visitors register with the receptionist where they're visiting; everyone else registers with Security. I don't know what visitors get when they register, but employees get a numbered tag
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If I had a theme song, this is what it would be: With apologies to Monty Python... [Fade in to a dev banging away on his keyboard muttering about linked lists and hash tables and third-order dependencies. A management type pokes his head in and tells
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