Wednesday, July 23, 2008

example: following requirements literally

Example of Requirements:
Employee: "Hello, how can I help you?"

Customer: "I would like to order a cake for a going-away party this week."

Employee: "What do you want written on the cake?"

Customer: "'Best Wishes Suzanne' and underneath that 'We will miss you'."

Employee: "OK."

Example of Product that Meets these Requirements:






Example of QA's Review of the Implementation of these Requirements:

"You spelled 'underneath' wrong. Add an 'h'."

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:46 PM

    Ironically, this is also known as the "Walmart" cake.

    I will miss you too Suzanne!

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  2. That is painful, and reminds me of some of the GUIs that I've seen Engineers create.

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  3. Anonymous2:09 PM

    looks like the person who did that cake was addicted to hopium.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-30-jul30,0,915294.column?page=1

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  4. Ha ha! Hopium! What a great non sequitur! You accountants break me up.

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