Bugs are part of day to day life of all software development teams. Many upcoming testers use Microsoft tools like MS Word, Excel, Notepad in the process of exploring their testing skills to validate software applications. Here, i would like to share very old article on Chasing Bugs In the Electronic Village by James Gleick. This article was published in 1992 & James shares his views on chasing issues in WinWord.

Though many things have been changed over the time, there are still some patterns exists on the bugs in applications. Though, Microsoft Tools are most widely used software across the globe, it still comes with lot many issues with them.

The following seems to major issues

• Behavioral Patterns of the end users in using the applications
• Less focus on the non functional needs like Usability, Accessibility, Performance etc
• Scalability of the applications to handle large volumes of users and data
• Simulation of all possible application environment for end users
• Change is the only constant thing and the software applications ability to support these rapid changes in terms of user needs and technology.

Software Testing & Quality is overlooked most of the time and it’s quite common to see buggy software in the market. Some of the projects ship software without even having dedicated testers & in some other projects due to budget constraints there are less resources. I was going through Joel on Software site and come across this Joel on Software – Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don’t Have Testers

As per Joel Perspective the reasons are

1. Bugs come from lazy programmers.
2. My software is on the web. I can fix bugs in a second.
3. My customers will test the software for me.
4. Anybody qualified to be a good tester doesn’t want to work as a tester.
5. I can’t afford testers!

Won’t they look similar in your context.