Our favorite bugs

(imported topic written by BenKus)

Somewhat recently sent around one of those email forwards that discussed some funny interactions between some airline pilots and mechanics. Despite the fact that I hate email forwards, this one was pretty funny:

http://www.celebratetoday.com/airjoke2.html

It made me think of some of the funny bugs we have filed in our bug tracking system. So I went through and collected what I consider to be some of the funnier bugs we have tracked in our system. Below are some bug titles and details:

Bug 4983 BES doesn’t work in the Eastern Hemisphere

In BES 3.0, there was a bug where time zones with a “+” were improperly formatted in the database. This of course led to many jokes with our European and Asian customers about how we Americans always think the world revolves around us.

Bug 5949 Customer reports fake security vulnerability

We are always very sensitive about security vulnerabilities and sometimes one of our customers will run tests to verify our security, which we take very seriously. However, one time a customer reported a vulnerability that a scan tool found, which clearly was a mistake (the vulnerability was for the wrong operating system). The customer agreed it was a mistake, but they asked us to file the bug anyway… So we did…

Bug 9842 i’ve lost my kurtosis"

Kurtosis is a statistical term (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis) that we use in our statistical application usage inspectors. During our testing cycle of BES 6.0, we accidentally disabled the inspector and one of our testers noticed.

Bug 10000 Woohoo Bug #10,000!!!"

After 6+ years of using our current bug-tracking system and hundreds of developer-years of work, we hit 10,000 bugs and feature enhancements. This bug promptly was filled with poor excuses of ASCII art that tried to illustrate party hats and balloons.

Bug 10617 TROGDOR!!!11!!11!!!1!11one

I don’t really know what this is about and no one will explain it to me, but apparently it has to do with developers working late at night and deciding to play: http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html . This appears to be a popular game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trogdor

Bug 10941 Orion doesn’t like the 432 Retries

When the BES Server tries to download a file and fails, it will retry up to 432 times (because it will retry every 10 minutes for 3 days, which adds up to 432). This number seems somewhat arbitrary (and we agree), but we didn’t have a reason to switch it to another number. One of our employees at the time, Orion, was very opposed to this number and our QA manager filed this bug on his behalf (we still haven’t gotten around to adjusting the number to some sort of base10 arbitrary number that Orion would be happy about…)

Bug 13782 de-uglify interface

This refers to internally developed testing tool… Seems self-explanatory…

Hope you enjoy some of these as much as we do (seems a bit unlikely though),

Ben