My Favourite Memes

“It’s Laughter We Are After” (from Monsters, Inc.)

A Meme is “an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online, especially through social media” [source].

This article contains my favourite memes (~ two dozen in total), organized into the following categories:

• Test Automation Framework

• Agile Process

• Agile in General

• Software Testing — General

• Test Automation

• JavaScript

• Side Hustle

• Software Development

• “Peopleware”

What I love most about memes is their amusement factor, as working in the software industry can be quite stressful. If you have any good ones, please share the link. If I like them, I’ll add them to my collection.

Test Automation Framework

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7209116921663737857/

The following mindset (using JavaScript) applies to End-to-End Test Automation as well.

Source: https://x.com/RyanEls4/status/1801469160121094187

How many JavaScript End-to-End Test Automation Frameworks have you heard over the last 10 years? The fact is that the Web barely changed for nearly 16 years (HTML5 was released in 2008). Crazy, right?

Agile Process

“Efficient Code Reviews”, Source: LinkedIn (~6K likes)

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7147879084923035651/

Agile in General

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7146944308783267840/. This post received over 4700 likes and 239 reposts.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/18c5mvx/mrfragilecoachpmp/

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ndkb8q/keep_dreaming/

Software Testing — General

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1aiq7tw/therealtester/, with 7.6K likes

Source: https://x.com/iamdevloper/status/1732152524084269385, with 9.6K likes

Source: Twitter

Test Automation

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/176sggj/allunittestspassing/, with 11K likes

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/zm08e1/auto_complete_title/, with 17K likes.

JavaScript

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1aijkjq/asyncbullet/, with 7.2K likes

Source:

credit: https://devhumor.com/tags/node_modules

https://x.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0R/status/1231594592111218688

Side Hustle

https://x.com/PovilasKorop/status/1600088919575519232

A popular Tweet with 310K likes.

Many software professionals dislike the job, including the language (e.g., JavaScript), the framework (e.g., React), the architecture (e.g., Microservices), test automation frameworks/tools (e.g. Cypress), the fake agile processes (e.g., estimating user story points and mandatory code review process), etc. They do (and sometimes even sign for) it anyway, for money. Often, switching jobs won’t help much either (I was a contractor for 10+ years).
In 2006, I started working on my side projects, …

Lesson: Don’t take software professionals’ opinions seriously unless they use their own advice in their personal projects.

Source:

Source: Twitter.

I think every software professional should try their hand at a side hustle software project, at least once.
Tips: Implementing end-to-end test automation and continuous testing can significantly reduce workload and boost the chances of success.

Software Development

https://x.com/VeneerCnsltng/status/1496131567122538499

“Keep this in mind regarding credentials”, Source: Twitter (253K likes)

Be aware of fake agile coaches, test automation experts, … ,etc. For End-to-end Testing, it is quite easy to filter out fakes. Check out my article, “Test Automation and Continuous Testing Competition Week”

“Peopleware”

Software is created by people, hence, there are human factors.

Source