Nowadays many software service providers have dedicated testing teams to carry out software testing. One problem with this is that the testing team becomes disconnected from the developer team. It also brings inter team politics as a new issue in software development.

Here is a list of top 10 programmer excuses I hear almost regularly at my workplace. This happens when a tester reports a defect or bug to the programmer.

1. “It works on my machine!”
2. “It is not in the software spec.”
3. “It is not in my test plan.”
4. “It worked yesterday.”
5. “There is something wrong with your data.”
6. “Is it deployed or is the server restarted?”
7. “I can’t reproduce the problem.”
8. “You have the wrong version.”
9. “There was no time to test it.”
10. “Somebody must have changed my code.”