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/
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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.