This joke was sent around the office a few days ago. Thought I would share here.
Developer : I’m not able to replicate this issue. It’s working fine on my machine. So lets close this bug.Tester : I understand that it’s working fine on your machine, but we aren’t going to deliver your machine to our customers. Let’s see what’s different between the to environments.Developer : =(
Developer : I don’t always test my code but when I do it’s in production.Tester : Can you also check your environmental settings? It might not be as the same as production.Developer : =(
Everyone working as part of a development team has had conversations like this. These are real developer to tester conversations.
To me these are more amusing than funny. I think that’s because I’ve had similar types of talks so many times that it’s hard to laugh at now. Every joke contains a little bit a truth, I get that. At the same time you would think we would be able to move past conversations like this.
Known that something works on one environment versus another can be helpful for debugging. However not being able to reproduce a bug locally isn’t enough to justify closing the bug completely. That’s just my two cents. Hey maybe I’m just jagged when it comes to the subject. What do you think?