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.
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.