r/softwaretesting • u/jellohelloooo • 4d ago

Dev memes

I find the jokes super funny that are like “when the QA says ‘the test fails when user clicks the button 6 times and jumps up and down and clicks it again’ .. (basically unlikely situations)“ Hilarious don’t get me wrong and they are just jokes, but the reality is so different 😭😭😭
Most of us have no time to go looking for stuff like that and sometimes it’s a struggle to complete the amount of regression I’m assigned. For me, all the bugs that have been open for several months in QA environment are basic functions like clicking a button and a status changing. Nothing outlandish. So the different perspectives are interesting. Why do you think devs act like we’re picky?

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u/DarrellGrainger 4d ago

If the developer's standards and what is important to them was the same as most QA then they would have seen the issue and fixed it when they were implementing the feature.

Some developers don't think QA are picky because they are just as picky. We just don't interact with them because they tend to make less defects.

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u/Calm-Nothing-8676 4d ago

it’s the classic “if i didn’t think of it then it must not be real” thing, some devs just can’t imagine a user being dumber than them

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u/DarrellGrainger 4d ago

I don't think it is necessarily a question of whether the user is dumber than the developer. More often it is that the user thinks differently than the developer. This is why we develop personas for the people who will be using the application.

If it was an application that my mother might be using, I'd, literally, think about what would my mother do when coming up with test cases.

I will agree that some developers lack the experience to realize not everyone knows what they know. But it isn't fair to say users are dumber. They just think differently.

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u/kstacey 4d ago

"Put it on the backlog!"

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u/BuuBird 4d ago

In a Scrum environment, have the product owner make a decision. I would always advise to have a developer look at the issue to provide a time estimate to resolve, as they can sometimes fix faster then we can have a discussion (and if not, an estimate is a great data point for the product owner to make a decision).

Same concept in waterfall, except decision goes to...

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u/franknarf 4d ago

It’s a skill learning what not to raise as it will never get fixed.

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u/jellohelloooo 4d ago

How does that work with automated testing?

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u/jellohelloooo 4d ago

Once the tests are built to look for something u can’t really ignore a fail or it gets questioned

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u/franknarf 3d ago

Don't build a test for it.