Mighty Tester: Why it doesn’t need to be fixed…

Image showing comic strip. In each frame, the tester is speaking with another developer. She says "I found a bug." Dev1: "It was working yesterday." Dev2: "It works on my machine" Dev3: "It's not a bug, it's a feature" Dev4: "It's not in the requirements." Dev5: "It's only a nice-to-have" Dev6: "Did you try restarting your machine?" Dev7: "The user would never do that" Finally in the last frame, the tester says to herself: "And that concludes our developer bingo"

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