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Of course, just like in every moral tale, his shortcuts came
back to haunt him. He’d bypassed the database testing on
their ecommerce application and the value field for the
televisions that would normally retail for £1000 had been
input at just £1.
be thrown into snake pits. Avoidance in the testing phase. She’s lusting and not the latest software build.
strategy: beware of smoke & mirrors after control. When the test database Because they have wasted time
when evaluating solutions. Make sure becomes corrupted, it can take up to chasing ghosts, real defects have
they are easy to maintain. ten hours for them to roll back the managed to slip through the net in
changes and reset the environment. areas of the application they were
Lust If only she was able to create her unable to test. Because some exchange
Lust is an inordinate craving or animal own test database with checkpoints rate changes were not picked up, the
desire for; A lascivious passion or she could revert back to time and application has had to be pulled and
desire for something often to the time again, her life would be a hell of the team are destined to spend their
point of assuming a self-indulgent, and a lot easier. There’s a tight deadline weekend bug-fixing.
sometimes violent character; It relates on the latest software release and she The punishment in Hell will be: to
to almost anything that you may have knows that getting the DBA to reset be smothered in fire and brimstone.
a strong desire or drive for, such as her environment will hold the project Avoidance strategy: test data
the lust of battle or lust for power; up another 24hrs, so she decides to management is the bedrock of
Lust prevents clarity of thought and go ahead and test on (the corrupted) successful automation.
rational behaviour. test database she has at hand. The
The QA team leader at Lucifer regression test picks up a ton of Greed
Banking Corp is fed up with making defects that the test team go on to The self-serving desire to acquire
constant requests to her database spend days investigating, only, far too material wealth and possessions
administrator for slices of data to run late in the day, discovering that the beyond the need of the individual,
their tests on. It’s a huge bottleneck errors were actually in the database
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