Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 08, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    A rock star among computer geeks.

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    B. Thorssen  over 3 years ago

    Two like minds meet – how fortuitous for them all!

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “Contact?”

    “Roger!”

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    Masterskrain  over 3 years ago

    “Tah-Daahhhh!!”

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    Prescott_Philosopher   over 3 years ago

    The hook is set, now reel her in.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This episode originally appeared in 1996.

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    RichardHunter  over 3 years ago

    I thought she was a coder – now she’s a QA? I agree that QAs are brutally cool though.

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    sueb1863  over 3 years ago

    And suddenly it’s “Mom who?”

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    starfighter441  over 3 years ago

    A bug checker eh? So now we know she doesn’t work for Microsoft, they don’t employ any it seems.

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    alexius23  over 3 years ago

    Kim scores

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    For a Just and Peaceful World  over 3 years ago

    Cool moms are the best!

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    carlzr  over 3 years ago

    “Learn to code” suddenly has a cool new meaning.

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    mattro65  over 3 years ago

    Bug-checking is brutally boring as are most video games. Bring back Tetris!

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    summerdog  over 3 years ago

    I want to be as happy as Alex is today.

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    Bob Blumenfeld  over 3 years ago

    Also known as an alpha tester. Too often, the buying public becomes the beta testers. (And alpha/beta has nothing to do with superiority, just chronological order.)

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    jakko1  over 3 years ago

    Cool! A word of praise that seems has persisted ever since the early 50’s; possibly before that. I think it started with jazz musicians, then taken up by the Beatniks and on and up until the present day.

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    Wizard of Ahz-no relation  over 3 years ago

    two chicks bonding over a shared hobby

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Many years ago I had a patient whose mum was a bug checker. Basically playing the game with your elbows and a notebook.

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    lsdunn_rocket  over 3 years ago

    I recently retired after 25 years of software testing. At the beginning it was tough to convince the big bosses that testing was necessary but they soon realized that having users find errors did not create goodwill. I loved my job.

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Yep, Alex and Kim will get along great

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    ChessPirate  over 3 years ago

    I had two jobs as a Computer Programmer, and I loved debugging. Finding and fixing a problem was like solving a big, complex logic puzzle (yeah, I’m weird)… ッ

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    ImDaRealAni  over 3 years ago

    I’d love to have someone fix my bugs for me.

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    ferddo  over 3 years ago

    All these years later, a lot of kids still dream about becoming video game designers…

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    David_J Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Software testing for over two decades. Still brutally cool. ;-)

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Kim is doing alpha testing, which is performed by the company’s own testers. Next step in the process is to fix whatever the alpha testers find and send out those updated copies to trusted power users to do the beta testing. Anything THEY found was fixed and incorporated into the public release, presumably in fully functional form. However, with the speedup of the development cycle and implementation of “continuous upgrades” (or whatever the the cutesy buzzword is), all of us who used to be known as “customers” or “end users” have now earned the righteous title of gamma testers.

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    willie_mctell  over 3 years ago

    Bug checking is tedious. Essentially you make a list of every function and feature of the software and then try them all out, singly and then in combinations. It can only be done by brute force.

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    NWdryad  over 3 years ago

    Don’t think of Kim as a stepmom, think of her as a big sister. The age difference is less. XD

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    bakana  over 3 years ago

    She forgot to mention that she Wrote most of it, too.

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    Fuzzy Kombu  over 3 years ago

    No, I can say from experience that bug-checking is just brutal. Agonizingly boring. But it beats testing-in-production, which I seen done too often.

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