I still feel sad when people tell me that 'You know what mate, QA is a dieing domain!!!', Even today when quality is such a big concern, we get to hear these sort of comments.... Last day It was my colleague who started off on this.
I told him a story, Thanks to Pradeep soundarajan's testertested blogspot I read this some time ago, still remembered it.....
"Once upon a time", A big corporate had decided to shell out some of its profit for its employees, The were so bored giving away bonuses they decided to do something creative this time. A meeting was called and somebody suggested we could give away customised coffee mugs to all the employees(Well its a story.. so just read on...).
One of the VPs thought it was a great idea, (Yea, right the cost factors they are never gonna agree on giving away iphones :P)
So A project manager was in In-charge of this one too, He formed a team, As usual the designing department came out with some awesome designs,and finally the coffee mug was out before the Christmas..great!!!
The VP in charge was very happy about his achievement, he sent a mail to all the employees saying "Congratulations Mr. Project manager, You have done it again!!!!"
and then the vacation was over and every one was back to work so was our VP.
Then one day he noticed that almsot 90% of the people was using this coffeemug as apen stand.
He couldnt take it, This was a great insult .... He called up the Project manager , and askied him to do a research why were the folks so rebeleuos towards the coffeemug concept...!
The PM called up a meeting with the entire office at the conference room to share the humiliation,
He asked "WHY?"
Thats when someone told him "The cup was cool, So was the design, but it just dont fit the coffee vending machine!!!"
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The moral of the story is: "Try hiring a tester !!!"
