Variants of this list have been posted a hundred times before across the net, but never on my blog – so here goes, this is my list of classic excuses software developers feed to testers.

• It works on my machine.
• You’re feeding in the wrong data.
• I haven’t touched that code.
• You must be running the wrong version.
• Have you reinstalled and tried again?
• The server might need rebooting.
• It could be a hardware problem.
• It worked when I unit tested it.
• It’s never done that before.
• Someone else must have changed it.

I come across new excuses all the time, so consider this post a light-hearted work-in-progress.

Of course, testers also have a list of standard excuses, but that’s for another post.