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doing some testing at work recently reminded me of a time several years ago...
i reviewed compiled notes submitted by testers on a computer based training course i had recently finished building. one tester (of 15) wrote "the screen went momentarily black and a text message claimed the fish were spawning, then returned to the course". this was far and away the most bizarre comment in 30 pages of notes. it was so crazy i just laughed and dismissed it as the comment of an insane person.
in the second round of testing a few days later, another tester had a similar comment. i spent several days researching this error and trying to duplicate it. team members were accusing each other of putting easter eggs in the code. unable to reproduce the error i gave up, and just prayed it would never show up after final release.
several months later i was reviewing the course and the fish began to spawn. i laughed for 3 days.
the courseware had a forward navigation button at the bottom right of the screen. coincidentally, one of our testing macs had the famous after darkswimming fish screen saver installed. the bottom right corner of the screen was a trigger area to start up the screen saver. the testers moved the mouse to the corner, pausing long enough to trigger the screen saver. as the screen saver loaded the text message about spawning fish would pop up. the tester would then panic and unknowingly move the mouse which would disable the screen saver before the fish began swimming across the screen.
Posted by griff at April 01, 2003 09:09 AM