See you next year

 

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- 8000 clicks per month 
- 500'000 (far more) in total 
- most of the visitors are from USA, Asia and South America.

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Obvious Bugs

 

After a series of good quality delivered to the customers, there came the temptation to short-cut testing activities. Under pressure, trade-off decisions have to  be taken. Can we risk delaying the release again due to a weird anomaly that happens from time to time while we have no reproducible scenario at hand? Is it better to start investigation and communicate the bad news to the release manager? What if we ship anyway? Will the testing department look bad if customers find obvious bugs like low hanging fruits? We've gone through all of this, but one lesson we have learnt is to raise a ticket for all anomalies, regardless whether we have a reproducible scenario yet. The meaning is to label our internal findings as known anomalies/findings and ship this information along with the release notes. As soon as we have a reproducible scenario, we extend the ticket accordingly and the product owner can plan the fix. If it turns out to be a flash in the pan, good; and if not, at least, we are not in the line of fire. We found the problem, before the customer did.

Special fears in the world of insects

    

Hitting Earth

 Readers of my cartoons often ask me about the root incident behind these sketches. Many of the ideas develop over years. I keep making notes on things that happen to me (or to others) especially when I think, it could make a great story or lessons learnt later on. Sometimes, no direct background story exists on a cartoon; like this one. The original inspiration was born due to an article about a comet coming closer to Earth. There were speculations whether it is really just a comet or maybe something else. Even though the root idea had nothing to do with software development or -testing, you can still draw your own  relation to interesting software related stories. I mean, how often have you experienced a situation where you warned about a possibly wrong decision made by either your boss, a manager, a customer or whoever, only for you to later get a confirmation in the form of "Told ya!". 

Roughing up the atmosphere

 

RegEx at Stone Age

 

Arrested for deep seeking

 

Recent news about the Trump administration spread the alleged proposal of senator Josh Hawley who is cited to suggest that downloading the Chinese AI program DeepSeek should result in a $100 million fine and a 20 year stay in prison. This is such a ridiculous proposal that it ignited my senses. Since I have seen such articles on questionable news sites only, I am pretty sure, this can be ticked off as silly fake news. I was not successful finding anything related at more trustworthy newspapers like The New York Times or any other. But, I rewarded the chimera with a related cartoon.

If you download DeepSeek in the U.S., you could face 20 years in prison and a $100 million fine; this is what a new bill introduced in the Senate proposes to do

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/if-you-download-deepseek-in-the-u-s-you-could-face-20-years-in-prison-and-a-100-million-fine-this-is-what-a-new-bill-introduced-in-the-senate-proposes-to-do/articleshow/117954136.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst