Bob

[DaveB]

I remember a conversation with one such tester - very thorough though - all I could say was "that's like testing to see if a ford escort could drive on lava - utterly pointless!" Responce was "but it is possibly that someone would try this and the error is unclear...". So I had to account for stuff that people would not do just so I could the testing signed off.

Sounds like he was actually a good tester. The thing to remember is, if it is possible to do something (whether you should or not) in a system, someone will.

 

[Doggy Styles]

Sounds like he was actually a good tester. The thing to remember is, if it is possible to do something (whether you should or not) in a system, someone will.

I thought that. The network admin system at my clientco went down for over a day last week because of an obscure edge case.

They weren't best pleased here.