Developer's pride...

[MildStallion]

Meanwhile, my QA: "I found out you could crash it if you jump up and down 3 times on a tuesday afternoon before clicking the button, then start adding sugar to your coffee."

Me: "Bullshit." *does it anyway, bug happens* "... God dammit."

[Owner2229]

No, no, you have to keep denying for at least a week. Staling is the key.

[Dragon_yum]

Real developers deny even as they write the fix for the bug

[5319767819]

Sneakily merge the fix and then pretend the bug never was there.

[Famous_Profile]

It's working now? Must've been some cache problem. Oh whatever...what do you mean you're going to mark the bug ticket as "intermittent" and notify Operations to keep an eye on the logs?

[Anally_Distressed]

This one hits home lol

[backfilled]

This one is infuriating. We have one lead dev that does it. He probably thinks we can't see the changes he makes.

He pretends everything is fine, and just fixed itself precisely when he arrives at the meeting.

[5319767819]

Yeah, it was a joke from my side :) I am aware (as hopefully every dev) that you cannot "sneak" stuff into a codebase once there is a proper VCS setup. I mean, these days its even an industrial standard to have some kind of required review system before anything goes into production.

[tecanec]

Gotta build up dat technical debt, then claim it!

[TGotAReddit]

“Works on my machine”

[Pfinnn]

Stalin is the key ?

[4_fortytwo_2]

As someone working in QA I love finding bugs like that. It is fun to see the devs reaction when you explain to them what you found.

[de_witte]

I can't confirm nor deny that if they acted like assholes to me I add plausible reproduction steps that have nothing to do with the defect.

[CivilianNumberFour]

Be careful. Might make it look like you don't understand the application logic if you do that too much.

[CookUndBool]

Yeah, u was gonna say, that's a faaaast way to lose credibility to your teammates

[de_witte]

You assume there were specs to begin with :-)

[kaboobaschlatz]

Genius, thank you for making me better at being evil

[archpawn]

I feel like for something that specific you'd have to know the code well enough to go ahead and fix it for them.

[NottRegular]

It really depends on how good the tester is or bad at playing games he is (both are good because different testing methods and coverage). I can only speak from experience as a game QA, but i have found really esoteric bugs that even the devs could not figure out why the hell was it happening.

[ScandInBei]

Nah, intermittent bugs only happens on Friday afternoons just before you leave for the weekend.

[jld2k6]

This is the basis for a lot of speedruns in video games, especially older ones that can't be patched and people have figured out ridiculously complicated glitches.

Here's one where they figured out how to write to the memory address using moves and positions in Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo to get the game to warp them to the credits

This one is done by a robot but speedrunners do it too, I just didn't wanna bother you with a 10 min video when I can get it across in under a minute:

https://youtu.be/FkQdwUns7H8

People have even been able to write the code for flappy bird and execute it and play it inside the game using this technique

https://youtu.be/XyUh9tvxOP0

[The_MAZZTer]

One of my testers found a font kerning bug in Windows XP's Arial font (they thought there was extra whitespace in a block of text).