I used to have a QA job. Can confirm, this is the soup in my head. That's why I was good at testing. Also, that's not your sister. That's your trans brother, who we also love. See?
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Also misses the edge case where sister was born on a leap day
Or maybe in a country that recently switched from the Julian calendar, adding the possibility of >12 months between birthdays as described by calendar.
Real talk: I wish more orgs place a high value on QA. A good QA team is worth it's weight in gold and helps prevent a lot of stupid mistakes.
I wish I had a QA like this.
I design software, another guy builds it, then I test it. I seem to have a really good intuition for ferreting out the edgiest of edge cases and generating bugs. Pretty sure he hates my guts.
Project Managers and software designers are hated for their "designing". The testing is always very welcome.
If you were 4 and now you are 44 then you might be an integer variable. If sister is also a variable, we don't know when she was allocated. She might also be an integer constant in which case she's arguably immortal.
I'm working on a gameboy emulator and the amount of edge cases you have to consider feels just like this lol.
Love this, 100% accurate. QA people are amazing, protect us from ourselves in so many ways we didn’t even think of.
It's also the system administrator and SRE mindset.
But they still don't think of all common user possibilities. I like this joke:
A software tester walks into a bar.
Runs into a bar.
Crawls into a bar.
Dances into a bar.
Flies into a bar.
Jumps into a bar.
And orders:
a beer.
2 beers.
0 beers.
99999999 beers.
a lizard in a beer glass.
-1 beer.
"qwertyuiop" beers.
Testing complete.
A real customer walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.
The bar goes up in flames.
Bathroom testing was not in scope.
This one's on management.
You know, I feel like management deciding what is and isn't in scope on their own is itself asking for trouble.
I wish our test team was like that. Ours would respond with something like “How would I test this?”
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Fails to consider the case in which the 2-year-old sister is now male.
Also that you have died or that she is now of no gender
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clearly the answer is 22
well she is half my age and that is a well known time invariant so she is 22
Based on the only comparison we have, the OP is twice the age of their sister. so the sister is now 44/2, or 22. Easy problem.
Based on the only information we have, OPs sister is two. So the sister is 2. Trivial.
ML in action.
The programmer's answer?
We don't support that use case.
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So by this definition testers are annoying due to being super pedantic and precise.
Disagree, I think programmers are annoying in exactly the same way.
I think it's more about how testers always run into all the edge cases programmers don't think about
Can confirm, not even an official tester (just an open beta tester) and have acrued a reputation for having a legendary bug aura that can cause catastrophic and previously unseen edge cases to occur just by opening the software (game)
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I'm a Dev with no QA so i just have to be neurotically pedantic so nobody goes to jail
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This all assumes all years are measured by the same orbit with no mixing and matching planets or space habitats.
The standard earth year had not been adopted system wide
Am I an oddball in that as a developer, that QA answer is the sort of answer I give? It annoys management to no end.
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