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Stories – short ones & shorter ones(shortbites)

Daemon

Imagining how de-monetisation would affect the stuff inside the computer. Enjoy. CPU ran out of cache It thrashed the disk and SD card came to rescue All because of the ‘daemon’ Note: Daemon is a background program, cache is hi-speed memory.

Love in physics

Who said physics was left brained?  See what happens when we apply the emotion of love to physics. #1: “Mass love” Mass got attracted to Gravity and gave birth to Weight #2: “Electric love” His high voltage charm she resisted, succumbing later, when she felt his current flow through her.

Red light area

I entered the red light area. I stopped and looked at her anxiously, for the green signal. I noticed that everybody was very keen on her dropping the guard. Some of them sneakily moved forward. She blinked and everybody rushed headlong passing her into the next red light area at the next  traffic light.

Litigation

In a consumer court hearing… The petitioner said “Milord, I am running around in circles to get them to fix the bug, but to no avail” The respondent said “Milord, I have been fair and square when I told him to the point, that it is a new feature” Now they called in the tester as a witness who poetically said: Twas a bug that I found “Ain’t so big”, they said and they added…..

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Sympathy & Empathy

Addressing the testers graduating from CleanSoft Academy The Test Guru said: Empathise with the users and Sympathise with the developers not Empathise with developers and offer Sympathy to users Feelings are important,  don’t misplace them.

News report on testing

A creative take on how news about a software system crash would be in reported today! White assaults Black, system crashes Testland/July 5, 2017, T Ashok In Gray’s SaasFactory at Testland, during the nightly build, Miss Black was brutally assaulted by an intruder. The intruder identified as Mr White, after injecting a bug was covering up his paths on his way out when Black blocked his path and raised an exception. White in retaliation, took…

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Inappropriate behaviour

What happens you personalise inappropriate behaviors in computers? Three fun micro stories. Enjoy! #1: “Unzipped” When she unzipped him in front of the other files, the system shut down. #2: “Exception” When he misbehaved, she raised an exception. They ignored it and the program terminated. #3: “Corrupted” When she read it, it was all garbage & filth. “Damn he is corrupted, we need to check sum Mr File”, she said.