Paul CantrellBecause they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.
Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”
Video 2/3: “2 unit tests, 0 integration tests”
Video 3/3 (I feel this one •deeply•, to the bone):
“Developer watching QA test the product”
Geoffrey Conley 🏳️🌈🖥️🚲@inthehands this whole thread is spectacular. The spectator's face as they put the circle through the square, the kids sliding down the hill, all of it. Glorious!
@geoffreyconley
We’ve all been her.
I told the students, “If your user test doesn’t make you feel like that sometimes, you’re either not testing soon enough or not testing hard enough.”
@inthehands now if I could just figure out an appropriate way to reference these when an exec or client tries to de-prioritize user testing
CassandraVert@geoffreyconley @inthehands
Tell them about when Chevrolet tried marketing the Nova in Mexico and it was a big bust because no one on the US side knew that in Spanish, no va means "it doesn't go"
You want to be that guy?
ETA I learned this in school in the 1970s, but apparently the part about it tanking was an urban myth. They did market the Nova in Mexico, but it did ok. And apparently car makers have had other names that didn't translate well.
Harald Hannelius 
Martin Vermeer FCD@harald @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands Fiat was advertised in Finland using the slogan 'petojen sukua', i.e. 'predators' kin'... until someone added 'susi jo syntyessään', i.e., 'a wolf [Finnish for 'lemon'] by birth'. In Finnish 'susi' means 'wolf', but also a failed product or 'lemon'.
And the Toyota Yaris inevitably becomes Toyota Varis ('crow')...
@martinvermeer @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands also when Fiat Punto was chosen as Car of the Year (vuoden auto, literally also Car for a Year), people extended that to Maybe two Years (Ehkä kahden), a pun on the quality of Fiat cars back then.
@inthehands @harald @martinvermeer @geoffreyconley
Is that the one where you have to pull up the center console to work on the engine? Worst design I ever saw.
Is that the one where you have to pull up the center console to work on the engine? Worst design I ever saw.
@CassandraVert
It’s the model where the placenta covers the cervical opening, which can be quite dangerous
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/placenta-previa/symptoms-causes/syc-20352768
Fredrik@martinvermeer @harald @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands Or the Honda Fitta in Sweden, quickly changed the name when they discovered that it literally meant pussy in swedish.
Enola Knezevic@martinvermeer @harald @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands Wait till you hear about Honda Fitta:
”Honda Fitta är liten på utsidan men stor när du väl kommit in”
Fredrik (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Or the Honda Fitta in Sweden, quickly changed the name when they discovered that it literally meant pussy in swedish.
esthi@CassandraVert
Apparently, there was a Rolls Royce "Silver Mist", which was then renamed "Silver Shadow"
("Mist" is the German word for crap, or muck)
https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/autokatalog/marken-modelle/auto/flops-autonamen/
@geoffreyconley @inthehands
x0r@esthi @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands I thought Audi would rename their “e-tron” brand in France, but apparently they didn’t. So I always have a chuckle when I see an Audi e-tron because “étron” is a French word for turd.
I didn't know that!
I'll try to use this new word when I'm in France in two weeks 🫣
You might like that song from Ultra Vomit then (it’s a French parody metal band): https://youtu.be/MaJtzfl8CPM
Ultra Vomit - Panzer Surprise ! - 08 E-TRON (Digital Caca)
@x0r
I've actually been ill for a week (very bad cold) and I don't think my brain (or my eyes 🙈) can process this at the moment 🤯
@CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands
I've actually been ill for a week (very bad cold) and I don't think my brain (or my eyes 🙈) can process this at the moment 🤯
@CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands
Vive Levant@x0r @esthi @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands which is surprising as the French auto marketing industry still reminds vividly the glorious time of Toyota restyling its sport coupé MR and putting on the French roads the MR2, which can be read « merdeux », meaning shithead.
Tortipede@esthi @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands The Toyota MR2 is just an MR in France - em err deux would not have sold so well.
Cadbury Moose@esthi @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands
Glenfiddich (the whisky distillers) shot themselves in the foot when they produced a 21 year old single malt matured in rum casks and named it "Havana Reserve" - automatically barring it from sale in the USA! (It's lovely stuff, but far too expensive for this moose BTW.)
They eventually renamed it "Gran Reserva" to get around the ban on anything to do with Cuba.
Crystale@esthi @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands currently e-tron cars are marketed in France while "étron" means "big turd"...
Georg Arne Spenden@CassandraVert @inthehands @geoffreyconley It's interesting what works and what doesn't. In Germany, cosmetic brands "Dove" (doof = stupid, dull) and "Nivea Visage" (criminal's face) seem to market without problems. Well, those who don't disappear rapidly.
Mysturji@CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands
Years ago, an American company tried to break into the UK market with their brand of mineral water (I forget the brand name).
Their slogan: “Bottled spunk”.
Years ago, an American company tried to break into the UK market with their brand of mineral water (I forget the brand name).
Their slogan: “Bottled spunk”.
@mysturji @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands
This means "crime wank" in Swedish.
@mysturji @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands
Kissa means "to pee" in Swedish
@mysturji @CassandraVert @geoffreyconley @inthehands "Kuga" means "plague" in several Slavic languages.
gnate
Kat KimbrielReminded of an ancient posting about testing. They were testing cat litter. The cats were rooting particles out of the litter boxes and playing with them.
The observer was mournfully saying something like, "The client is not going to like this. . . ."
CodeByJeff@inthehands and then there's the American auto executives who went to Japan to find out why the Japanese wouldn't buy American cars...
and found out the Japanese drive on the other side of the road
And then - wait for it - they did nothing to fix the problem, and came back 25 years later to the same surprise
Gen X-Wing@inthehands Third one tells me that the product is overdesigned and product/UX did a poor job. Or the software designer if it’s an API.
Being able to do all that with just a fraction of the functionality available? I think that’s neat.
Two first ones gave me a laugh, so true :)
AndrocatPretend it's meant to keep things out, rather than accept things in.
Like, it's a firewall or some shit, and users can just make whatever pass through, without even really trying.
Jeremy KahnEvery time I watch this video I laugh until my eyes water
And it's been that way for _years_ now
Polychrome 
@inthehands that last one, it's how I feel about all protocols becoming http.
Red_Shirt_no2
Random Damage 🌻@Red_Shirt_no2 @Polychrome @inthehands classic example of the internet treating censorship as damage and routing around it
Niclas HedhmanIt has bugged me to no end;
IP = stateless
TCP = stateful
HTTP = stateless
cookies/webrtc/websockets = stateful
Why not just stick to TCP connections?
Brendan B.@niclas @Polychrome @inthehands easy explanation: thanks to NAT, locked down public wifi, and overzealous IT admins; it became the only reliable protocol.
Velvet@inthehands That last one made me laugh out in class 
The others are great too.
@rgbunny
They’re so good! Also [professor voice™] stop watching videos in class!
They’re so good! Also [professor voice™] stop watching videos in class!
Tony Vladusichthis is how everybody uses the Colors UI afaik cc @troy_s
IT DOES NOT GO IN THE FUCKING SQUARE HOLE TROY
Gustav Wengel@inthehands This cracked me up hard.
Daniel Keys Moran@inthehands the Times has been in bed with fascists my entire life.
phryk 🏴@inthehands The third one is deliciously accurate because that's exactly the sorta shit good QA people object the software to.
"Oh, a text field – let me put in a NUL, a unicode snowman, a console bell and an RTL text direction switcharoo and see how big the explosion is." 
IBBoard@inthehands Was that not originally "QA/dev watching as the user uses the product"?
If your QA team aren't shoving everything in every hole then they need firing!
Whereas it's well known that users will find unexpected ways to interact with your device/app/website.
Lightning Bjornsson* 
@inthehands dev keeps dying inside
jonossa seuraava@inthehands
Me as QA: works as intended, can insert piece into the bucket. Piece stays in the bucket once inserted. Issue marked as done.
Me as QA: works as intended, can insert piece into the bucket. Piece stays in the bucket once inserted. Issue marked as done.
Tical91@inthehands Hilarious.
LionelB