Love this scene from Elf!

Testers do everything, but somehow, all anyone notices is the part where we hit "run" on a test case. Classic paradox.

Reality: A chaotic blend of tasks—meetings that could've been emails, deciphering cryptic bug reports, convincing developers that “it's not a feature, it's a bug,” and occasionally running tests when the universe aligns.

What People Think: "Oh, you're a tester? So, you just, like, click buttons all day, right?" Sure, Rahul, that's exactly it. Clicking buttons and living the dream. Meanwhile, the real "other stuff" includes saving the project from exploding and translating developer-speak into plain English.

I for one embrace this spelling mistake. It does the job (for now). It still delivers. Funny how we can get caught up in these quality loops and pick holes in things that aren't as important as we think. Image source and story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3mzlp022o

Yes, a bit of tongue and cheek, not to be taken too seriously, but also memes are a way of self expression. And this is my way of sharing that I'm excited for STEC and all the professional software testers who are contributing to it. It feels like a course that truly welcomes people into our much loved profession.

https://www.ministryoftesting.com/certifications/mot-software-testing-essentials-certificate

In our retrospective, a developer said that one way to deal with spaghetti code is to take a pair of scissors, cut it, and call it macaroni

An app rebrand is quite the testing task. New logos, themes and colours to check everywhere. Sometimes a rebrand can't be done with a big-bang approach.

I spotted this on a walk next to Buckingham Palace and wondered if they raised the bug as "Will not fix" or if they just made it a P3 and stuck it back on the bug backlog for later. I feel the main stakeholder wouldn't be too impressed with that prioritisation decision. 😉

Not really a story. But when I saw the picture it immediately made me think of how sometimes different software components are hacked together to create an integrated system

In testing, QA engineers often encounter bugs that seem severe or exaggerated, leading them to prepare for worst-case scenarios and tackle every potential problem like it’s a huge threat (the "fierce dragon"). 8-bit Dinosaur in Prod by contrast, the same bug in production might look trivial or even go unnoticed. The 8-bit Google dinosaur, which you see when you lose internet, represents how a bug that QA saw as a “dragon” is perceived as almost laughably small or insignificant by end-users or production teams.