When you label a bug P1 and are asked to justify that by explaining the impact on the user: When they force you to run the sprint demo and a new bug shows up in the middle of it: When a developer says "show me" and the bug miraculously stops happening: When your bug report is rejected on the grounds of "design by defect" not on the merits of the issue itself: When you spend all day searching the spec documentation for a subtle requirement justifying the bug you're reporting only to refresh the page and see that requirement was just deprecated: When you find a bug so pernicious, it takes the senior developer a week and a half of steady work to fix it, then you immediately find another bug in the fix: When you see the build in production and immediately find a spleling error: When you're asked to estimate the amount of effort it will take to test a specific user story during sprint planning and someone on the team
The adventures of a QA myrmidon in a still untested world.