Today is Limerick day. A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form (AABBA rhyming), which intends to be witty or humorous, and is sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
Here is one from me (if you respond in kind let's stay away from the "obscene" part of the definition)!!
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Of course, that challenge went answered and we have had a steady stream of limericks all day! :)
Here were some of the ones I thought up between meetings and test sessions...
(The first one is on hiring testers:)
What is Quality?
How do you check the functionality?
Provide info in a timely fashion
Prefer those with passion
Most important, you need personality!
Doing good work takes time and thought
If you think testing is easy, it is not
We apply test techniques
To see what reeks
And help the stakeholders know what's hot.
In Exploratory Testing we Learn, Design, Test.
We believe no practices are "the best"
Context helps us decide
Which approaches are tried
Until we solve the problem we do not rest.
Jerry Weinberg is an important man
Of his work and ideas I am a big fan
He helped me to learn
People are the concern
So make helping them succeed the plan
Okay, so I'm not a poet. ;-)
Can you do better? Leave some limericks in the comments and have fun! =)
Cheers! Paul.
I am ElizaF and I am a passionate software tester
ReplyDeleteWith great frequency, the business I do pester
When I yell 'the software is broke',
It gives the PM a near-stroke
So he works very hard to keep me away from the corporate investor
:)
The life of a tester has trials
ReplyDeleteAnd many don't walk down its aisle
For those that dare tread
Down the path of most dread
They work with a smile on their dial
Hey Paul, Eliza, & Anne-Marie, fun to read your testing limericks!
ReplyDeleteHere's a handful I wrote for Limerick day, '07: http://testingjeff.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/limeuristics/
Enjoy!
There was a tester called Don
ReplyDeleteWhose test cases ran to 1001
when asked why
he winked his eye
and said he was paid for each one