Bored at work on a Friday

[annathepiper]

How you can tell a software tester is bored at work on a Friday: when she sends email to one of her team devs outlining how to file a bug report on being eaten by CHUDs.

Subject: Eaten by CHUDS
Priority: 1
Severity: 0
Description: Help, I'M BEING EATEN BY CHUDS!
Steps to repro:
1) Look in my cube
2) Note presence of CHUDS
The bug:
They're $%*()!*()'ing EATING ME, WHAT'S KEEPING YOU PEOPLE?!
Expected behavior:
NO CHUDS!

Comments

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Fucking CHUDs!

[annathepiper]

Next week, my lead will be wondering why there's a splatter of blood across my status report, the last few words of which will be 'mzrkl;f amrflrlfrgh AAAAAAAAAAH!'

[waysofseeing.livejournal.com]

Won't fix. Side effect of some performance improvements we took in the last build. The code still runs at minimum acceptable levels with automation.

Reopening Bug

[annathepiper]

Bug last changed by (tester in cube next door to Anna): They're spreading! They're spreading! This thing is STILL REPROING, BRING FLAMETHROwmermpgh......

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Dang. Too bad I'm the only tester where I work.

[annathepiper]

Look at it as job security! If you're the entire QA department, you're not disposable!

Though if your boss' eyes ever start glowing in odd fashions or you spy a strangely shaped pod in said boss' office, THEN you might want to start worrying.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Ha yes, the QA department is just two people, my boss and me. They actually didn't have any software tester until they created the position and hired me!

[annathepiper]

Sounds like you're golden, unless you find a mysterious sewer grating in your cube that was never there before!

Just look out for ominous-sounding chords on the office soundtrack, too.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I haven't been listening carefully enough. Instead I was listening to the last episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce. Well, no sewer grate so far, so I think I'm safe for now. I'll keep an eye on my boss's office too. Maybe if he is eaten then I can become boss.

[annathepiper]

Well, assassination-by-alien-pods IS one way to move up the ranks... ;)

[seattlesparks.livejournal.com]

You know, the funniest thing about this to me is that Apple's performance/memory debugging toolset is called 'CHUD Tools.' (I am not kidding. (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14358))

It stands for "Computing Hardware Understanding Developer," which is such a contrived acronym that I'm certain it's supposed to refer to the other kind of CHUD, the one which eats you. Which is probably appropriate, given what performance and memory debugging often feels like... ;)

[annathepiper]

Bwahahahahaha! Yeah, that's got to be a deliberate acronym choice there. From all that I've heard about the Apple folks, I'd totally buy that.

And having done my share of debugging, yeah, it's about right up there with being eaten by CHUDS, indeed! ;)

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

I still say TWAIN is my favorite acronym in the field: Technology Without An Interesting Name. ;)

[annathepiper]

........ y'know, I don't think I ever knew what that stood for. Hee! :)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

*grin* Mind if I share this with the metaquotes folks? :-)

[annathepiper]

Not at all. ^_^

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Danke (http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/4903322.html). :-)

[annathepiper]

*giggle* You're welcome!

[wildcardgal.livejournal.com]

Umm, whats a CHUD? Sorry but I honestly don't know.

[annathepiper]

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. ;)