Some software defects are tough to discover. Others are difficult to describe. Yet some defects are just delightful.After a week of convincing a programmer that the user should know when the software he is working on cannot perform one of its important functions, he went ahead and created an error message. However, the error message was rather laconic and, I should say, self contradicting: it said "Error: OK". When the Test Engineer raised objections regarding the contents of the error message, the response was even more puzzling: the developer claimed that he had been told to output system's original error message, which he did...
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