I keep letting bugs go live on purpose.
I can’t stop myself.
I get a kick out of it.
Am I a bad person?
Am I a rogue tester?
What should I do?
I keep letting bugs go live on purpose.
I can’t stop myself.
I get a kick out of it.
Am I a bad person?
Am I a rogue tester?
What should I do?
If you are a zoologist then this is a natural response but if you’re a software tester you should consider your professional ethics
Questions you can ask yourself:
Maybe Brian’s mum from Life of Brian would have a better view.
maybe it’s time to go to a psychotherapist if you can’t stop doing it. Maybe you have some exceptional motivations for doing so, if this is the case then explain it to us
… Yes, the worst sort.
… Change job roles and become a developer.
Then you could be a sort of a hero - by creating more bugs you are creating more work and new job opportunities for others!
‘I keep letting bugs go live on purpose.’
I did that too. I rarely had the choice to do more about them besides informing managers and advocating for risky/critical bugs.
I think that’s better than not finding them in the first place and letting them go live undetected, by professional negligence.
Sounds like your managers were the negligent ones!
Why would you say that? A manager leaving bugs knowingly in production is fine as long as they do it for the progress of the company and business(or forced by their managers/C-levels).
Most of the agile-developed products work that way as far as I can tell. There’s a first MVP release with a bunch of bugs and missing features. Fix them for the following years.
A good example of throwing ‘bugs’ to prod is:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1co6iy2/the_new_sonos_app_feedback_megathread/
For some companies something might change, for others not so much.
I guess it depends on the context of the bug, if an employee regardless of level/role knowingly puts a bug into prod that could cause harm or damage to the system it is absolutely negligent and depending on the damage caused could result in anything from reputational damage to a prison sentence.
Using Sonos as an example is fine, but would you feel that this approach was OK if say Boeing left a bug in their plane control systems that could cause a plane to fall out of the sky?