Common phrases used by developers
One of my partners (who is PM in global company) sent me his list of common phrases used by his developers. I also added some of phrases, commonly used by my developers. Here the list:
- It works on my machine
- That’s weird!
- But this was running before…
- Some minor stuff has to be fixed
- This must be a hardware problem
- Someone tinkered with incoming data
- But I didn’t touch that module
- I’m almost finished
- That’s will be done quickly
- You can’t test everything.
- It’s impossible that it will affect the other module
- I remember that I fixed this bug already
- Documentation is being written
- This is not my program
- I had lots of unexpected troubles
- But the specification was always changing
- I thought I found the bug
- This change will be done in 5 minutes
- I’m waiting for the others so I can test
- Aside from the fact it is not working, what is your impression?
- That’s not a bug – it’s a feature! (by dotmad)
- It works as coded (by Joseph Cooney)
- Sorry, my code is compiling. I will get back to you in a few hours (by David)
I’m inviting you to contribute your phrases in comments and if the phrase will be really interesting, I’ll update it in the post (with like to your blog/site)
So, let’s start creating ultimate developer’s phrases list.
January 5th, 2009 · Comments (19)
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January 5th, 2009 at 10:23 am
“it must be gremlins” – when you can’t duplicate their bug.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:05 am
Most of them are about problems and people usually come up with the first excuse they think of. One that annoys me the most is something you can here even when there is no problem (refactoring, porting), even when it does not involve development (changing source control):
- “It works, let’s not touch it!”
January 6th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Sorry, my code is compilling. I will get back to you in a few hours
January 6th, 2009 at 1:44 am
This upgrade will not affect any functionality or cause downtime (often said moments before the system goes down)
January 6th, 2009 at 2:23 am
A personal favourite of mine: “it works as coded”
January 6th, 2009 at 3:23 am
That’s not a bug – it’s a feature!
January 7th, 2009 at 1:06 am
somebody might have changed the code
January 7th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Requirement changed,initial concept changed
, that is new requirement
January 8th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
“My Developers”
Lot of leads use it very casually. I don’t think it is a stupid sentence to use even though you know that they are not “your” developers.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Probably you’re right, but who’s developers are they?
January 9th, 2009 at 8:45 am
No no no, you dont want to do that…
January 19th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Looks like a server issue.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 am
“I could’ve do that in one line with Linq.”
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
“I could’ve done that in one line with Linq.”
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 am
That was not in specs.!
or
Nobody told me so, how may I know it!
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
“Must be user error.”
“That’s outside of the quoted specifications”
“It’s an IE6 issue, tell them to upgrade.”
April 15th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Not that I’m impressed a lot, but this is more than I expected when I found a link on Furl telling that the info here is quite decent. Thanks.
October 25th, 2009 at 12:42 am
“I thought it may/might work” (it is very typical when a dev is asked why she/he did it that way/approach)
“Why my bug is P0?” (Priority Zero, has to be fixed in 24h)
(because they don’t know what they had done block the whole system)
March 15th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Since the tattoo, the famous designer Christian Audigier stored files.