What does software and menstruation have in common?

At least two Ubuntu packages. I present to you cycle and mencal for tracking menstrual cycles. Immense entertainment ensues to think about the functional testing.

Man from testing team: Honey, did you have your period today?
Test subject: Get lost you insensitive clod!
Man from testing team: (Filling out bug report form) Prediction early by few days. Kindly fix ASAP.

Cycle

calendar program for women
Cycle is a calendar for women. Given a cycle length or statistics for
several periods, it can calculate the days until menstruation, the days
of "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to ovulations, and
define the d.o.b. of a child. It allows the user to write notes and
helps to supervise the administration of hormonal contraceptive tablets.

Possibilities of the program:
  - Calculate days of menstruation, based on the length of the cycle or
    on statistics of previous periods.
  - Calculate days of "safe" sex, fertile period and day to ovulations.
  - Definition of D.O.B. (Date Of Birth) of a child
  - Allows to write notes.
  - Helps to supervise reception of hormonal contraceptive tablets.
  - Multiple users allowed. Data is protected by a password for every
    user.

NOTE: This program is not a reliable contraceptive method. It does
neither help to prevent sexual transmision diseases like AIDS. It is
just an electronic means of keeping track of some of your medical data
and extract some statistical conclusions from them. You cannot consider
this program as a substitute for your gynecologist in any way.

 Homepage: http://cycle.sourceforge.net/

Mencal

A menstruation calendar
Mencal is a menstruation calendar written in Perl.

It is a simple variation of the well-known Unix command cal. The main
difference is that you can have some periodically repeating days highlighted
in color. This can be used to track menstruation (or other) cycles
conveniently.

Author: C. McCohy 
Homepage: http://mencal.kyberdigi.cz/english.html

I've read so many arguments and debates on why we don't have women in technology, especially software. And I never really figure out the real reason for it. But now I can say, at least we're trying!