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Google Releases 'Testing on the Toilet'

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the logging-off dept.

JasonK writes "Here's a type of Google launch you don't see every day: Testing on the Toilet. This is a service that has been apparently been running internally for several months and teaching developers about testing during their 'down time,' so to speak. Due to the wild success of the program inside of Google, they decided to start a blog where they will post these weekly episodes so that the rest of us can print them out and have our own reading on the can. Is this a step towards Google becoming more open about their development practices?"

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  1. "Can't we act like adults... by maynard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mr.... *Poopypants*!?!?!?!" -Lt. Frank Drebin

  2. Cute idea by countSudoku() · · Score: 5, Funny

    No that's thinking outside of the box! Personally, I like to do testing in the kitchen, then QA in the shower, then go production on the can... but that's just me.

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  3. Here I sit all broken hearted by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tried to test, and only farted.
    Then one day I took a chance,
    Passed the test and shit my pants!

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  4. Re:Another reason not to work for Google. by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first time a manager hands me some test documentation to read in the can, will be the second time I hand a manager a poop wrapped in a test document.

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  5. The road to hell is paved with good intentions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Decades from now, when we are suffering under the tyranny of Google, we will wistfully look back on this as the moment when they started to become evil. It always starts small, and with the best of intentions. I JUST WANNA TAKE A DUMP, OK??? LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!

  6. Re:Huh? Wha? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    New products may make a splash, but pity the guy who has to examine the logs.

  7. Re:Huh? Wha? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't deny that I'm an insensitive clod (as many of my failed dates will attest(but seriously, get a real job girls(and a real degree(damn, i'm drunk right now, and i work in the morning(count those perens, you lisp bitches(i'm going to die alone :-())))))), but ridiculing the severely-obese could, possibly, motivate the fatties to stop killing themselves, thus saving decades of their lives.

    If your job doesn't afford you enough time to exercise (=1hr/night), QUIT because your life is worth more than an extra 20k/year!!!!!

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