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.