Vad är TPS-rapporter?

TESTPROGRAM SET

Enligt regissören Mike Judge står TPS-rapporterna för testprogrammet i film .

I guess I can settle this once and for all," Mike Judge, the movie's writer and director, said of the dreaded report his protagonist, Peter Gibbons, failed to attach a cover sheet to, despite his eight bosses' memo to do so. "When I was an engineer, it stood for Test Program Set. Isn't that exciting?"

I populärkultur definieras TPS Reports som tanklösa pappersarbete på ett miljö av kontoret:

After its use in the comedic 1999 film Office Space, "TPS report" has come to connote pointless, mindless paperwork, and an example of "literacy practices" in the work environment that are "meaningless exercises imposed upon employees by an inept and uncaring management" and "relentlessly mundane and enervating". According to the film's writer and director Mike Judge, the abbreviation stood for "Test Program Set" in the movie. In the movie, multiple managers and coworkers inquire about a single error that Peter Gibbons makes in utilizing a wrong cover sheet to send his TPS reports. It is used by Gibbons as an example that he has eight different persons he directly reports to.

Det finns också en definition i urban dictionary angående TPS-rapporter som definierar dem som totalt meningslösa Stuff (bland annat).

Wikipedia-inlägget för TPS-rapporter (ja det existerar) listar följande definition, från Institute of Elektriska och elektroniska ingenjörer:

IEEE 829 – Test Procedure Specification The Test Procedures are developed from both the Test Design and the Test Case Specification. The document describes how the tester will physically run the test, the physical set-up required, and the procedure steps that need to be followed. The standard defines ten procedure steps that may be applied when running a test.