Share a quality scary story in 10 words or less

Oct 31, 2025

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Share a quality scary story in 10 words or less, with a very surprised bug
In this memory: Bug

You've got 10 words to create a scary story

CEO & Founder at Ministry of Testing
She/Her
I've been working in the software testing and quality engineering space since the year 2000 whilst also combining it with my love for education and community building. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified
Rosie Sherry
Why didn't we think of that?

Rosie Sherry
MoTaverse 404

Simon Tomes
I deleted my testing database or was it prod?

Eamon Droko
"That'll probably be caught in testing, right?"

Stephen
UAT can't generate the result. Can we go live anyway?

Heleen Van Grootven
"It works on my machine."

Gary Hawkes
Ship it, I've marked these accessibility bugs as low priority.

Maithilee Chunduri
Small change, no testing required, deploy to production

Richard Adams
They thought they didn't need any testers. They were wrong.

Maithilee Chunduri
No configs test in live

Christer Nilsson Ribbing
Can someone actually do that?!

Simon Tomes
Emails never stop sending.

Simon Tomes
Police app books the wrong person.

Simon Tomes
One, two, Bug's coming for you!

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