"p.s. - turn your cell phone off. Now. And your home phone. And just for good measure, delete your e-mail account. If they can find you they'll look for the next programmer in line..."
I'm a technical writer.
Once this crap leaves the facility, it becomes a help desk/developer problem.
I'm already working on the new training manual.
"just ignore test, I see it all the time."
Wow. I didn't realize that I gave a complete and total view into the software development process where I work.
The last three documentary pieces of the puzzle are always the Software Test Plan, the Software Test Results, and the Software Test Afidavits.
The three documents together run to nearly 1,000 pages.
The software successfully compiled almost 4 months ago and has since that time been in "run it every which way from Sunday until it breaks, and then fix the bugs, and start over."
We don't deliver perfect software, but it's damned close.