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Comment by Andy Smith on June 2, 2010 at 7:12am

If I should test, think only this of me,
that there is some corner of this complex project that is forever stable.

Comment by phil kirkham on May 5, 2010 at 11:18am

seems this group works - just had a new member join and in the section where you put how you found out about the STC they put "Searching for funny poems to break ice in project "

Comment by phil kirkham on February 8, 2010 at 12:26pm

Hi Hip Hooray
What a great day
The mag is out
lets sing and shout
well done to Rosie and Rob
They really dun a great job
As did Joel but he's hard to rhyme
They all put in a lot of time
The mag is great, without a doubt
only question is, when is #2 out ?

Comment by phil kirkham on February 8, 2010 at 9:40am

At last it's out
And without a doubt
It's the best I've read
best thing since sliced bread
So dont delay, do not lag
off ya go and download the mag

STC mag

Comment by Robert Healy on February 8, 2010 at 1:12am

Developers send us code that is "perfect"
With behaviour that is seriously suspect.
But in each defect report,
They always retort:
"As-designed, this isn't a defect!"

Comment by Paul Gerrard on January 1, 2010 at 8:56pm

Originally posted here

With most humble apologies to Rudyard Kipling...

If you can test when tests are always failing,
When failing tests are sometimes blamed on you,
If you can trace a path when dev teams doubt that,
Defend your test and reason with them too.

If you can test and not be tired by testing,
Be reviewed, and give reviewers what they seek,
Or, being challenged, take their comments kindly,
And don't resist, just make the changes that you need.

If you find bugs then make them not your master;
If you use tools - but not make tools your aim;
If you can meet with marketing and salesmen
And treat those two stakeholders just the same.

If you can give bad news with sincerity
And not be swayed by words that sound insane
Or watch the tests you gave your life to de-scoped,
And run all test scripts from step one again.

If you can analyse all the known defects
Tell it how it is, be fair and not be crass;
And fail, fail, fail, fail, fail repeatedly;
And never give up hope for that one pass.

If you explore and use imagination
To run those tests on features never done,
And keep going when little code is working
And try that last test boundary plus one.

If you can talk with managers and users,
And work with dev and analysts with ease,
If you can make them see your test objective,
Then you'll see their risks and priorities.

If you can get your automation working
With twelve hours manual testing done in one -
Your final test report will make some reading
And without doubt - a Tester you'll become!


By the way, to read If... by Rudyard Kipling you can see it here:
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm

Comment by Robert Healy on December 22, 2009 at 9:46pm

Us Testers
If there's something strange
In your application
Who you gonna call
(Us Testers!)
If your GUI's weird
And it don't look good
Who you gonna call
(Us Testers)

I ain't afraid of no bug
I ain't afraid of no bug

To get regression
Running through the night
Who can you call
(Us testers)
Proof-read documents
Performance is out of sight!
Oh, who you gonna call
(Us testers)

I ain't afraid of no bug
I ain't afraid of no bug

Who you gonna call
(Us testers)
Don't develop alone
Pick up the phone
And call
(Us testers)

{Note: This was nearly U-Testers - they're a commercial company, they can get their own marketing}

Comment by Robert Healy on November 5, 2009 at 12:03am

Suspicious Minds
{For Elvis Impersonators...}
Chorus
There's a bug in my app
I can't log out
Because a memory leak has crashed the gateway
Why can't you see
No usability
What customer is going to want to pay?

We can test together
With suspicious minds
And we can build our scripts
On suspicious minds

So, if a defect I know
Drops by to say hello
Would I still see regression in your eyes?

Here we go again
Functional testing
You can see these metrics are real
I'm trying!

We can test together
With suspicious minds
And we can rerun our scripts
On suspicious minds

Oh let our code survive
And remove the bugs from your lines
Let's don't let a bad thing lie
When honey, you know
I've really tested you
Mmm yeah, yeah

Chorus
Chorus

Note: If you want to sing-a-long, the original unbutchered version is here. (needs sound)

- Rob

Comment by Andy Smith on November 4, 2009 at 1:15pm

:-) Very witty!

Though, I guess actually you should've messed the rhyme up slightly with each new stanza until it didn't work at all...! :-)

Comment by phil kirkham on November 4, 2009 at 12:55pm

A regression tester once quipped:
"I'm tired of repairing this script
for each iteration.
It's causing me frustration!
Our regression pack is so ill-equipped!

A regression tester once quipped:
"I'm tired of repairing this script
for each iteration.
It's causing me frustration!
Our regression pack is so ill-equipped!

A regression tester once quipped:
"I'm tired of repairing this script
for each iteration.
It's causing me frustration!
Our regression pack is so ill-equipped!


A regression tester once quipped:
"I'm tired of repairing this script
for each iteration.
It's causing me frustration!
Our regression pack is so ill-equipped!

A regression tester once quipped:
"I'm tired of repairing this script
for each iteration.
It's causing me frustration!
Our regression pack is so ill-equipped!

A regression tester once quipped:
"I'm tired of repairing this script
for each iteration.
It's causing me frustration!
Our regression pack is so ill-equipped!

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