QA Hates You

Well, not this song, but the message it conveys.

“Mantra” by Bring Me the Horizon

Yeah, I’m still here. I’d say I’m still testing, but I have found myself on a couple of gigs where I spend most of my time with Agile artifacts expressing that some testing is done. Not as much as there should be, though. Perhaps I should get back to writing more.

Unleash the Archers, “Test Your Metal”

U.D.O., “I Give As Good As I Get”:

Remember, testers and quality assurance professionals: You should always give at least as good as you get. If not better than you get.

I’ll let Lzzy Hale and Halestorm take this one:

“Uncomfortable”.

As you probably know, I’m a big fan of Leo Morachiolli, a Norwegian scientist proving every week that metal makes everything better.

Here is his cover of Peter somebody’s song “Sledgehammer”:

“I want to be your sledgehammer” is right on my business card.

Three Days Grace, “The Mountain”:

Testament, “Centuries of Suffering”:

Yes, I just got the new Testament album, Brotherhood of the Snake. Which is what I’m planning to call the Testers’ Union when I get enough signatures.

Fozzy, “Judas”:

Now go out there and betray some friendly software for a couple bits of silver.

“Indestructible” by Disturbed.

I know, the song is almost as old as this blog is. That doesn’t make it any less relevant.

Currently on heavy rotation deep in my darkened QA lair is this song by Rise Against, “The Violence”:

Clearly, I’ve been clicking the replay button too much to do any real writing lately.

Paralandra, “All Fall Down”:

Well, it’s our job to make the software fail early and fail fast.

The Mothers of Invention, “Trouble Every Day”:

Don’t just watch the trouble. Be the trouble. For your developers, anyway.

Not Des’ree. Motionless in White, “Loud”:

You gotta be loud
You gotta be rude
so the world can hear you
You gotta be crass
You gotta be cold
it’s everything we know

So just be yourself, testers.

Ded, “Anti Everything”:

Especially Mondays.

Kenny Loggins, “Danger Zone”

You know that’s what I listen to when I set the load testing tool to ramming speed.

Ozzy Osbourne, “The Road to Nowhere”

Which is from one of Ozzy Osbourne’s comeback albums, almost twenty-five years ago, old man.

Skillet, “Feel Invincible”:

It’s Monday, though. The feeling will pass.

Cage the Elephant, “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”:

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve some grifting to do.

It’s time for annual reviews. How do you think you did in 2016?

Here’s mine: “Monster” by Skillet.

Adelitas Way, “Ready for War (Pray for Piece)”:

Well, it has Pray for Peace right in the title. That makes it a Christmas song to me.