Developer and tester dilemma is well known and faced by everyone involved in software development cycle. Certainly this comes to lots of in-house jokes. Below is a funny reminder on the difference between tester’s and developer’s point of view!





Optimistic Developer: The glass is half full

Pessimistic Tester: The glass is twice as big as required

Optimistic Developer: This code hasn’t yet been tested. It’s not known if it has any bugs.

Pessimistic Tester: This code hasn’t yet been tested. It’s not known if it works.

Optimistic Developer: We are 90% done.

Pessimistic Tester: We don’t know when we’ll be done, if ever

Optimistic Developer: We will refactor the code to make it better

Pessimistic Tester: They are throwing out the working code and replacing it with an unknown quantity

Optimistic Developer: I only changed one line of code

Pessimistic Tester: The entire system must be retested

Optimistic Developer: The code is the design

Pessimistic Tester: There is no design

Optimistic Developer: We’ll fix those bugs later, when we have time

Pessimistic Tester: We never have enough time to fix the bugs

Optimistic Developer: This build is feature complete

Pessimistic Tester: The features exist; some are completely broken

Optimistic Developer: Anything is possible, given enough time

Pessimistic Tester: Everything has flaws, and given enough time I can prove it

Optimistic Developer: Of course it will work

Pessimistic Tester: It might work, but probably won’t

Optimistic Developer: One last bug fix, and we can ship tomorrow

Pessimistic Tester: Fixing this one bug will likely lead to two more

Optimistic Developer: Stop finding bugs, or we’ll never be done

Pessimistic Tester: Stop creating bugs, so I can find them all

Optimistic Developer: There’s no need for more tests

Pessimistic Tester: Let’s just run a few more tests to be sure

Optimistic Developer: There is no I in TEAM

Pessimistic Tester: We can’t spell BUGS without U

Optimistic Developer: That’s an “undocumented feature”

Pessimistic Tester: That’s a bug

Optimistic Developer: I like to build things

Pessimistic Tester: I like to break things

Optimistic Developer: Sure, we can use the Beta version of this component in Production

Pessimistic Tester: We should wait until version 2.1

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