A Software Tester Walks Into a Bar (Animation)

No amount of testing will survive the sheer capacity of normal users to try and do the exact thing you never thought of.

He forgot to order half a beer to test float data types

0:14 I love how the eyes of the bartender slowly widen as he said his order lol

That's why having people play the beta test of the game is actually a great idea.

As a bartender myself I can confirm that people order -1 beers

Ah yes I quite like my beer with a side of "unexpected OverflowException at line, 3092"

Reminds me of a post by a developer about the weirdest reports they got from gametesters. The one featured was something along the line of: "If you stand up on the corner on this outer ledge of that building, where you can only get to by parcouring up 4 stories on the invisible 1 Pixel topology ledges in the walls of the alleyway next to it, and look up into the sky at 46° vertical in north west direction, you are sent flying and eventually get shunted off the map." Their response: "Good catch, but HOW ON EARTH did you get the idea to even test that?!" 🤣

Another tester walks into the bar. "Hey guys it's Josh, welcome to Let's Game It Out." The rest is history

The bar engulfed in flames because the software tester can't handle how real the real customer's question is

"Orders -1 beers" I'd give this guy 4,294,967,295 beers if he did this

From the tiny amount I know about software, I’m pretty sure this is 110% accurate

To those who dont get the joke: when programmers code they usually expect their code to only be used in a few ways, so when testing its important to try and think of "edge cases" (particularly odd inputs) that the user might make. Things like large numbers, negative numbers, and strings of characters are common kinds of inputs you might expect, but programmers often find users do simple things with their programs that should have been accounted for but never were thought of (think of like pressing the back button after submitting your login info, a website might have a tough time for a moment dealing with the unexpected input). (edit: these kinds of unexpected inputs often can lead to crashing or severely unexpected behavior. Speedrunners are good examples of people who learn to use things like this in unexpected ways. For example in ocarina of time speedrunners have learned to use bush, pot, and butterfly data combined with loading zones to give themselves free items, if done correctly, though they can crash if they mess up.)

A software tester walks into a bar. Tester's note: "Clipping issue with bar."

I loved the original, even better with your animation. Nice work.

Now that was a accurate representation of quantum mechanics

His mistake was not checking to make sure the entire map was generated properly before interacting with an npc

lovin' this 3D style, with the faint diagonal lines and low framerate. it's got the vibe of an indie VR game. love it

The software tester walks into the bar again and asks where the bathroom is. Nothing happens.

That second whammy at the end there caught me off guard somehow. Software code is not a science, it is an an art that sometimes morphs into a lovecraftian horror that will drive you insane attempting to figure out WHY it is breaching all known laws of logic and syntax. There is also no level of testing, in any field, industry, or application, be it software related or not, that can 'customer-proof' a product. It's why you occasionally see some really weird illustrated warning labels.

god i love your animations, 2d + 3d always mesmerizes me